Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

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

Saroyan, William

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.

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

Cheever, John

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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

Epictetus

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ziggy

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cato The Elder

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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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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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 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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thurber, James