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 not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Brecht, Bertolt

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Pindar

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mencken, H. L.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Turkish

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Garbutt, Frank

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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

Bible

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

Ziggy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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

44.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thurber, James

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

Talmud, The