Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Confucius

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Blake, William

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

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Ward, William A.

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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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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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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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

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Epictetus

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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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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis