Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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

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

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Ziggy

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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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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

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Talmud, The

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Noll, Chuck

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

22.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

23.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bible

31.

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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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Evans, Bergen

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Thurber, James

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

40.

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.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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