True Wisdom Quotes

• True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

  John Tillotson

  Inspirational, Thinking, Imperfection

  John Tillotson (1720). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions”, p.412

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• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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• True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wisdom, Causes, Effects

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.426

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• Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

  George Arliss

  Life Changing, Humility, Mind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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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.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

  Euripides

  Silence, Silence Is

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• True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

  Kiana Tom

  People, Type

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• Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Wisdom, Famous Inspirational

  "3 Inspiring Business Lessons From Billionaire Media Mogul Oprah Winfrey" by Kim Lachance Shandrow, www.foxnews.com. August 2, 2016.

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• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

  Socrates

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

  Akhenaton

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.

  Richard Whately

  Inspirational, Past, Perception

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• All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.109, BookBaby

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• Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

  Socrates

  Knowing, Knows

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• To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

  Socrates

  Lying, Goal, Limits

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• Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Wisdom, Dream, Creativity

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, p.3, Random House

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• You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.

  Vernon Howard

  Frustration, Battle, Causes

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• True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

  Confucius

  Knowing, Knows

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• When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself.

  Michael Eisen

  Judging, Feelings, Trying

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• Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Gay, Mirth

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

  Mary Astell

  Distance, Unhappy, Wit

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Judging, Impossible

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• Guru Arjun tells us that the truth we seek is within ourselves, and I agree. The answers to many of our greatest desires, needs, and longings are inside. We only need to know how to retrieve them. The most powerful vehicle for retrieving our longed for answers is applied intelligence, which is the combination of information and experience. Applied intelligence brings true wisdom because it includes experience, usually on a deep level.

  Dharma Singh Khalsa

  Powerful, Truth, Desire

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• True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
  False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wisdom, Mind, Argument

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.247

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