Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Cullen Hightower

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Pindar

12.

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

Saroyan, William

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Larson, Doug

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Kraus, Karl

29.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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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 man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Blake, William

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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 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

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

48.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid