Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Kraus, Karl

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Garbutt, Frank

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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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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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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.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

James Boswell

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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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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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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