Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Evangel

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

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Marilyn vos Savant

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cheever, John

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Proverb, Turkish

13.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Bible

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Buddha

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Cocteau, Jean

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, 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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Pindar

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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