Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

- Basho, Matsuo

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Noll, Chuck

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Marilyn vos Savant

11.

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

James Boswell

12.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

13.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

15.

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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

17.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

18.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

19.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

21.

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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

23.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

27.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

34.

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

35.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

38.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

39.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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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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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.