Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Marilyn vos Savant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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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

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Cullen Hightower

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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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

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

Thurber, James

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Robbie Gass

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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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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Ziggy

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.