Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Thurber, James

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ziggy

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Marx, Eleanor

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Talmud, The

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Evangel

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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

22.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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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

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

Bible

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Talmud, The

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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