Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marilyn vos Savant

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Evangel

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Talmud, The

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Blake, William

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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.

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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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

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

Cheever, John

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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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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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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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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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward