Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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

Quintilian

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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]

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Pindar

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

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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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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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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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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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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.

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