Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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.

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

Blake, William

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

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

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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 is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Epictetus

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

19.

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

Ziggy

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Pindar

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

44.

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

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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