Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wisest have the most authority.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Talmud, The

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

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pindar

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thurber, James

11.

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

Blake, William

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Camerounian

15.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Larson, Doug

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

19.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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 wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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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

40.

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

43.

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

Noll, Chuck

44.

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

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

Bible

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

48.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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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