Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Thurber, James

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Marilyn vos Savant

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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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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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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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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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

21.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

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

Blake, William

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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 oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

25.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

27.

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

30.

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

Bible

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

Aristophanes

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

35.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

37.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

41.

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

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

Garbutt, Frank

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

46.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish