Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Bouton, E. S.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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 often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

21.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Confucius

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine 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 not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Thurber, James

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

Quintilian

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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

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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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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 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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.