Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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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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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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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

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

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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 greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Quintilian

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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 heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

42.

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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Evangel

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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

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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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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.