Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

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

Butler, Samuel

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Epictetus

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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

Quintilian

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

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

Aristophanes

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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

Ziggy

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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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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cato The Elder

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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

Robbie Gass

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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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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 beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates