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

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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]

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Blake, William

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

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

Cato The Elder

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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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 is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

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