Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

- Borland, Hal

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Talmud, The

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Buddha

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Zenrin

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

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

18.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

31.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

33.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine 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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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