Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Talmud, The

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

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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 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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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

Ziggy

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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 price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Robbie Gass

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Pindar

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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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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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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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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 wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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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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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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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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

Noll, Chuck

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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 experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel