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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Zenrin

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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 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

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

33.

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

Evangel

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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 thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.