Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wisdom

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

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.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

10.

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

11.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

12.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

13.

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

14.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

15.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

16.

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

Evangel

18.

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

Confucius

19.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

21.

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

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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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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

29.

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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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.

31.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

34.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Buddha

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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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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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

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

Aristophanes

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

Cato The Elder

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.