Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ziggy

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Talmud, The

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Mencken, H. L.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Oprah Winfrey

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

12.

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

Bible

13.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

14.

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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

17.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

18.

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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

22.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

23.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

24.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

26.

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

Bible

28.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

30.

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

Ward, William A.

31.

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.

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

Cato The Elder

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

34.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

35.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

39.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Bible

41.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

45.

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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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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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace