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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
Wisdom Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Russell, Bertrand

2.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Goldsmith, Oliver

3.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Mencken, H. L.

4.
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower

5.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]
Bible

6.
Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

7.
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

8.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

9.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

10.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Brecht, Bertolt

11.
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
Zenrin

12.
Wise care keeps what it has gained.
Proverb, Danish

13.
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Plautus, Titus Maccius

14.
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Buscaglia, Leo

15.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Carlyle, Thomas

16.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Tolstoy, Count Leo

17.
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

18.
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

19.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Titus Maccius Plautus

20.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Blake, William

21.
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

22.
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

23.
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.

24.
Action should culminate in wisdom.
Bhagavad Gita

25.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato The Elder

26.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

27.
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Epictetus

28.
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
Lee, Robert E.

29.
Who is wise? One who learns from all.
Talmud, The

30.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Coolidge, Calvin

31.
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Quarles, Francis

32.
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

33.
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
Proverb, African

34.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes

35.
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

36.
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
Proverb, Spanish

37.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
Buddha

39.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Saroyan, William

40.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Gabirol, Ibn

41.
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it
Stanislavisky, Konstantin

42.
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

43.
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

44.
Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

45.
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
James, William

46.
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

47.
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Buddha

48.
Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
Oprah Winfrey

49.
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

50.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maeterlinck, Maurice


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