Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Buddha

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

12.

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

Quintilian

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

15.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

17.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

20.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

22.

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

Talmud, The

23.

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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

25.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

27.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

28.

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

Kraus, Karl

29.

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

Ziggy

30.

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

Oprah Winfrey

31.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

32.

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

33.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

36.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

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

38.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

39.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

40.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

45.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

46.

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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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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

49.

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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton