Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Pindar

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Kraus, Karl

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.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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 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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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

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Evangel

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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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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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Cato The Elder

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Marx, Eleanor