Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Oprah Winfrey

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Marx, Eleanor

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Ward, William A.

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Talmud, The

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Bible

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cato The Elder

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

Blake, William

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Cullen Hightower