Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

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

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Quintilian

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

22.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Talmud, The

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice