Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Camerounian

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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

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

Talmud, The

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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

Thurber, James

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

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Quintilian

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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 nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Aristophanes

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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