Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cullen Hightower

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Pindar

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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 wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Talmud, The

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ziggy

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

Confucius

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

Bible

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

29.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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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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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.