Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

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

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Aristophanes

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Socrates

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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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

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

Blake, William

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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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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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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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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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.