Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Marilyn vos Savant

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Larson, Doug

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

Buddha

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Ziggy

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

Bible

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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

Cato The Elder

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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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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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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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Blake, William

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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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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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The wisest have the most authority.