Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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.

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

James Boswell

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

28.

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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

Thurber, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 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

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

Blake, William

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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