Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

3.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

4.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

5.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

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

7.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

10.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Cato The Elder

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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 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

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

19.

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

20.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

21.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

27.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

29.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

34.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

35.

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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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Buddha

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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

40.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

41.

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

Cheever, John

42.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Confucius

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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

49.

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

50.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis