Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Talmud, The

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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 to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Bible

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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

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Blake, William

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Buddha

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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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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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Thurber, James

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.