Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

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

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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 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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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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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Bible

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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 always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.