Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Thurber, James

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Proverb, Turkish

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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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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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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

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

Confucius

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.