Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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.

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

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

10.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

11.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

12.

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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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

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

Quintilian

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Evans, Bergen

19.

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 and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

28.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

30.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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.