Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Saroyan, William

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

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Ziggy

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Ward, William A.

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Thurber, James