Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

- Zenrin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Turkish

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Thurber, James

10.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Buddha

12.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

13.

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 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

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Blake, William

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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 wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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 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 not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

25.

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

Cullen Hightower

27.

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

Evans, Bergen

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

36.

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.

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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

Cato The Elder

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.