Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

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

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

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

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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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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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

James Boswell

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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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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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 overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Cullen Hightower

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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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

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Pindar

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

Talmud, The

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

Talmud, The

38.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

43.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Robbie Gass

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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 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 greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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