Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

By others faults the wise correct their own.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

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

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Blake, William

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

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Marx, Eleanor

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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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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Evangel

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Aristophanes

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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 alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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 greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Butler, Samuel

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.