Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

- Adams, James Truslow

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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