Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

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

Bible

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

10.

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

Aristophanes

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

Basho, Matsuo

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

16.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

17.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

19.

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

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

22.

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

23.

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

Ziggy

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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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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

27.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

28.

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

Buddha

30.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

37.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

40.

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

Bible

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

43.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

44.

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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.

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

Kraus, Karl

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich