Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cato The Elder

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

Socrates

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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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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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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

Bible

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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

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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 the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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 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

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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

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

Ziggy

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

Butler, Samuel

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.