Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

- Elizabeth, Queen

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Proverb, Chinese

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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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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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

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Bible

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Bible

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Blake, William

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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.

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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