Wisdom is defined as the ability to use your knowledge and experience to make good decisions and judgements. May these quotes inspire you to be a wise person, not just in thought but most importantly in deeds so that you live your dreams.
“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
Ancient Wisdom Quotes
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"It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Three methods to learn wisdom: 1. Reflection..Which is noblest; 2. Imitation.. Which is easiest; and 3. Experience.. Which is the bitterest…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Confucius
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"The only thing we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."๐๐ค๐ง
-Leo Tolstoy
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Plato
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"Desires are brought to live depending on one’s wisdom. Wisdom gives direction to desires."๐๐ค๐ง
-Takuan Soho
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"The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Democritus
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"Wisdom has always been the wealth of the common people."๐๐ค๐ง
-Raimon Pannikar
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"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Walter Lippmann
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."๐๐ค๐ง
-Aristotle
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"The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Solomon Ibn Gabriol
Words Of Wisdom Quotes
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"It is said that wisdom lies not in seeing things, but seeing through things."๐๐ค๐ง
-Elbert Hubbard
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"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it…"๐๐ค๐ง
-David Starr Jordan
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"Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day."๐๐ค๐ง
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Thomas Huxley
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"Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone."๐๐ค๐ง
-Socrates
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"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.. The truly wise person is colorblind…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Albert Schweitzer
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"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."๐๐ค๐ง
-Sophocles
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"A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Robert Cecil
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"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."๐๐ค๐ง
-William Shakespeare
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"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Knowledge And Wisdom Quotes
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"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."๐๐ค๐ง
-Tolstoy
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"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Naguib Mahfouz
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"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."๐๐ค๐ง
-Wordsworth
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"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it…"๐๐ค๐ง
-William Faulkner
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"Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end."๐๐ค๐ง
-Goldsmith
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"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Socrates
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"A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose."๐๐ค๐ง
-Twain
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"If intelligence is the ability to adapt to change, then wisdom is to know how and why to adapt for more than personal or economic gain…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Ivan Urlaub
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"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."๐๐ค๐ง
-Jefferson
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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Epictetus
Deep Wisdom Quotes
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"O World, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart."๐๐ค๐ง
-Santayana
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"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Sidney Hook
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"The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all good things are thus confused with ill."๐๐ค๐ง
-Shelley
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"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Bruce Lee
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"Wit, by itself, is of little account. It becomes a moment only when grounded on wisdom."๐๐ค๐ง
-Twain
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"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Seneca
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"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."๐๐ค๐ง
-Faulkner
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"Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Jeremy Collier
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"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."๐๐ค๐ง
-Confucius
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"Practical wisdom is what’s called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them…"๐๐ค๐ง
-Barry Schwartz
How To Gain Wisdom Quotes
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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."๐๐ค๐ง
-Emerson
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"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."๐๐ค๐ง
-Emerson
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"Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately."๐๐ค๐ง
-Plato
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"Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis."๐๐ค๐ง
-Ash
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"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship"๐๐ค๐ง
-Epicurus
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"Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship."๐๐ค๐ง
-Epicurus
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"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."๐๐ค๐ง
-Emerson
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"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise."๐๐ค๐ง
-Sophocles
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"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."๐๐ค๐ง
-Lippmann
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"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."๐๐ค๐ง
-Gibran
Wisdom Quotes By Famous People
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"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not."๐๐ค๐ง
-Akhenaton
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"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."๐๐ค๐ง
-Gibran
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"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."๐๐ค๐ง
-Montaigne
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"I question the wisdom of putting someone in that position who I believe has shown zealotry on the issue of reproductive health, including family planning, ... What it says to me is that there's this focus on anti-choice that I'm afraid is going to be a diversion."๐๐ค๐ง
-Boxer
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"Finding impacted wisdom teeth 15,000 years ago indicates the human diet might have already changed, some would say 'deteriorated,' earlier than previously thought."๐๐ค๐ง
-Martin
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"Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet."๐๐ค๐ง
-Orben
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"In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."๐๐ค๐ง
-Bible
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"He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world."๐๐ค๐ง
-Cocteau
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"Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials."๐๐ค๐ง
-Unknown
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"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."๐๐ค๐ง
-Saroyan
Wisdom Quotes Of Bible
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"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next"๐๐ค๐ง
-Mill
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"There is a lot of wisdom in selling off some subscribers because it just eases that regulatory question. This hastens the time when there is real competition in local phone."๐๐ค๐ง
-Roberts
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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."๐๐ค๐ง
-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."๐๐ค๐ง
-Hoffer
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"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away."๐๐ค๐ง
-Beecher
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"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it."๐๐ค๐ง
-Hesse
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"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."๐๐ค๐ง
-Gibran
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"From new transmitters came the old stupidities. Wisdom was passed on from mouth to mouth."๐๐ค๐ง
-Brecht
(69)
"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."๐๐ค๐ง
-Goethe
(70)
"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."๐๐ค๐ง
-Inge
(71)
"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself."๐๐ค๐ง
-Seneca
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