Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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.

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

Pindar

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Cato The Elder

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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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

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

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Butler, Samuel

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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 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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Quintilian

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)