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

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

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Talmud, The

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

Ward, William A.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ziggy

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

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

10.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

12.

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

13.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

James Boswell

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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

20.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Blake, William

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

Oprah Winfrey

24.

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

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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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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.