Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Wisdom

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Cullen Hightower

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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 scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

13.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

Aristophanes

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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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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

Thurber, James

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

Confucius

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

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

33.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

34.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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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.