Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Ziggy

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cheever, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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

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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

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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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Bible

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

Zenrin

15.

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

Epictetus

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

18.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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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

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

Cullen Hightower

21.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

23.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

24.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

30.

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

Evangel

31.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Buddha

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

Robbie Gass

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

42.

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.

43.

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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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

45.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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

Aristophanes

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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