Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Cheever, John

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

Proverb, Camerounian

10.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

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

Proverb, Turkish

12.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

13.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Cullen Hightower

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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

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

Bible

27.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

28.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

33.

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

Zenrin

34.

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

Saroyan, William

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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 is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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 oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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 Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas