Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cullen Hightower

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

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

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Zenrin

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Evangel

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bible

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cato The Elder

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

Marx, Eleanor

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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