Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

- Chaucer, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

10.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

11.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

12.

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

Buddha

15.

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

Thurber, James

16.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Noll, Chuck

30.

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

31.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

32.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

33.

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

Evangel

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

Pindar

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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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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bible

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

Bible

42.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

45.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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