Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

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

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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

Bouton, E. S.

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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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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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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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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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

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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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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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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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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.