Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Twain, Mark

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

Zenrin

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

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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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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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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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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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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Thurber, James

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

Evangel

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Buddha

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.