Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Aristophanes

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Pindar

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

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Proverb, Spanish

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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

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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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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Blake, William

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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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

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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