Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Bible

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Larson, Doug

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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

Robbie Gass

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Cullen Hightower

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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

Cheever, John

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Blake, William

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pindar

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.