The following inspirational quotes are about wisdom and the seeking of wisdom.
- “Humility and knowledge breed wisdom.” -- Anon
- “A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.” -- Frequently attributed to Plato, but not apparently found in his work.
- “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” -- Elbert Hubbard
- “For as it is the chief concern of wise men to retrench the evils of life by the reasonings of philosophy; it is the employment of fools to multiply them by the sentiments of superstition.” -- Joseph Addison
- “Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.” -- George Arliss
- “It is no longer enough to be smart— all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.” -- Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer
Chaos to Coherence - “Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.” -- Abba Eban
- “Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” -- James Boswell
- “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.” -- Sandra Carey
- “One's first step in wisdom is to question everything— and one's last is to come to terms with everything.” -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- “Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.” -- Merry Browne
- “Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” -- Howard W. Newton
- “The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.” -- William Ralph Inge
- “Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.” -- Eric Hoffer
- “Knowledge is knowing that the street is one way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway.” -- Anon
- “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” -- Mark Twain
- “All I know is that I know nothing.” -- Socrates
- “It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” -- Henry David Thoreau
- “Lack of tact merely underlies the absence of wisdom.” -- Cyril Alvarez Adriaansen
- “I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” -- Thomas Carlyle
- “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.” -- Gandalf
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in The fellowship of the Rings, Bk. II, Ch 2 - “There is something I do not know, the knowing of which could change everything.” -- Werner Erhard, founder of "The Forum"
- “There's nothing the mind believes that isn't erroneous at a higher level of awareness.” -- David Hawkins, M.D. Ph.D.
- “With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.” -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-99)
- “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but the product of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” -- Albert Einstein
- “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” -- Abraham Lincoln
- “Is there anyone so wise as to learn from the experience of another?” -- Voltaire
- “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
- “Wisdom comes through suffering.” -- Aeschylus
- “Our mind is of 3 categories: what we know, what we don’t know, and what we don’t know we don’t know. Not knowing is unfortunate; not knowing that we don’t know is tragic.” -- W. Erhart
- “The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate.” -- Dr. Wayne Dyer
- “Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.” -- Maurice Maeterlinck
- “Learn from the past. Live in the present. Prepare for the future.” -- Joseph P. Martino
- “Wisdom.
That soft and gentle voice.
It will always guide you faithfully
To make the wisest choice.” -- Joseph P. Martino - “The wise man relies on his two most trusted and loyal companions. Their names are moderation and common sense.” -- Joseph P. Martino
- “It is a wise man indeed who well in advance, offers God all his thankfulness and praise, in anticipation of life's unavoidable trials, tribulations and pitfalls.” -- Joseph P. Martino
- “The true genius possesses the wisdom and judgment to know and stay 'within' his parameters and boundaries while still thinking 'outside' the box.” -- Joseph P. Martino
- “A genius without balance is like a wise man devoid of common sense.” -- Joseph P. Martino
- “He who drinks from the fountain of life and quenches his thirst for knowledge never comes up dry.” -- Joseph P. Martino
- “To unlock the door to the future, you must first posses the key to the past.” -- Joseph P. Martino
- “One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.” -- Jack Canfield
- “We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.” -- G.K. Chesterton
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