Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

10.

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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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Aristophanes

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

26.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cato The Elder

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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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Epictetus

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

Bible

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

44.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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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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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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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