Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Talmud, The

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

Evangel

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

16.

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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

20.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Evans, Bergen

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

34.

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

Cullen Hightower

35.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

36.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

38.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

40.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Aristophanes

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

43.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

44.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

45.

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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

47.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

48.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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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