Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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 not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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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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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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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

35.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Talmud, The

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Quintilian

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von