Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Camerounian

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Socrates

10.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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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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

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Ward, William A.

20.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

21.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

23.

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

24.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

25.

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 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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

29.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

30.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

31.

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

38.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

40.

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

Ziggy

41.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

43.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

46.

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

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

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

Talmud, The