Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

- Maeterlinck, Maurice

Best Quotes about Wisdom

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Socrates

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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 alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Evangel

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

Cullen Hightower

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

24.

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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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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

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Pindar

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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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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

Rowland, Helen

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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.

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.