Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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

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

Buddha

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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

Epictetus

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bible

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Thurber, James

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Pindar

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.