Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Talmud, The

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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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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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Turkish