Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Robbie Gass

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Thurber, James

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

Epictetus

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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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.

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