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

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

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Evangel

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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

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

James Boswell

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

Bible

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Quintilian

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke