Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise men still seek Him today.

- Bell, Dan

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

14.

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

Bible

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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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

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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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

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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