Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Robbie Gass

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Aristophanes

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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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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

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Pindar

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

32.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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

Buscaglia, Leo