Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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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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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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.

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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