Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Epictetus

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

Talmud, The

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

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Oprah Winfrey

10.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Pindar

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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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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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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Butler, Samuel

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

20.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

28.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Ziggy

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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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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 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 only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Cato The Elder

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