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 overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Zenrin

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

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

11.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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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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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Confucius

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

Blake, William

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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

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

Aristophanes

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Ziggy

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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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

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Evans, Bergen