Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

2.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

4.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

6.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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

8.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

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 .

14.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

15.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

21.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

23.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

24.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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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 thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

30.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

31.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Quintilian

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

Cato The Elder

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

39.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

41.

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

James Boswell

42.

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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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.

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

45.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

46.

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

47.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

48.

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

Thurber, James

49.

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

Noll, Chuck

50.

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.