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

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Thurber, James

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

24.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Zenrin

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

Noll, Chuck

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

39.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Quintilian

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

Bible

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De