Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Elizabeth, Queen

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Talmud, The

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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 end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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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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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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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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]

Bible

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Bible

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Zenrin

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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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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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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

Evangel

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.