Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Buddha

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

Aristophanes

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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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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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

Bible

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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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 don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

Marilyn vos Savant

31.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Levenson, Samuel

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Cato The Elder

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Chinese