Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

- Garbutt, Frank

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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.

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

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

12.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Epictetus

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Pindar

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

Bible

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Cato The Elder

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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

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

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Thurber, James

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Confucius

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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