Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De