Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Ziggy

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Cullen Hightower

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

13.

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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Cato The Elder

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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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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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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

28.

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

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

Bible

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

33.

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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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 .

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

James Boswell

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.