Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ziggy

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

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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 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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

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

Ward, William A.

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.