Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Ziggy

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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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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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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