Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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

Evangel

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Proverb, Spanish

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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 beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Aristophanes

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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.