Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Talmud, The

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

Basho, Matsuo

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

10.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

11.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

12.

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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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

19.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

20.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

21.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Robbie Gass

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Oprah Winfrey

29.

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

Epictetus

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

31.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

32.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

33.

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

Thurber, James

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

Ziggy

35.

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

36.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Buddha

38.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

42.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

43.

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

44.

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

Garbutt, Frank

45.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

46.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.