Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

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

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

Quintilian

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

Socrates

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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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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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

Garbutt, Frank

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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

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Buddha

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