Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

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.

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

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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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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 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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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

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Aristophanes

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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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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Blake, William

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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