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 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

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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

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

Garbutt, Frank

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Bible

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Luther, Martin

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

Evans, Bergen

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bouton, E. S.

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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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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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha