Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Talmud, The

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Evangel

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

33.

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

Garbutt, Frank

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Confucius

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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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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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

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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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.

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

Gabirol, Ibn