Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

10.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

11.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

12.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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 wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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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.

25.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Noll, Chuck

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

35.

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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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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