Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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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.

2.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

3.

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

Proverb, Chinese

4.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

5.

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

6.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

11.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

13.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

15.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

16.

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

Proverb, Turkish

17.

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

Zenrin

18.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

19.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

20.

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

Aristophanes

21.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

27.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

28.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

30.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Cheever, John

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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

33.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

34.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

35.

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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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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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

39.

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

Talmud, The

40.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

41.

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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

44.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

45.

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

Robbie Gass

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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

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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

48.

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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

50.

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