Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

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

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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

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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]

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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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

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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

Thurber, James

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

Epictetus

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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

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.