Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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]

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cheever, John

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Thurber, James

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

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Evangel

11.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

15.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

20.

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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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Pindar

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Bible

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aristophanes

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

44.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal