Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

- Boileau, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Noll, Chuck

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

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

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.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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

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

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Aristophanes

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Pindar

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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 are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Marx, Eleanor