Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Blake, William

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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.

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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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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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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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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 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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Ziggy

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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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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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 meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Cheever, John

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

Kraus, Karl

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