Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about 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

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Proverb, Chinese

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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 testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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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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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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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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

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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

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

Basho, Matsuo

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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

Blake, William

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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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