Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Cato The Elder

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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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 is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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 not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Larson, Doug

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Talmud, The

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

Epictetus

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Quintilian

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Buddha