Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ziggy

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Twain, Mark

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

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

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

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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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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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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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Buddha

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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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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Socrates

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

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.

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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

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

Cullen Hightower

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