Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

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

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Aristophanes

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thurber, James

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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