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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Bible

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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

Brecht, Bertolt

10.

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

11.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

12.

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

Marx, Eleanor

13.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

14.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

17.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

18.

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

19.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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

Talmud, The

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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

24.

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

Epictetus

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

Bible

27.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

28.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

32.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

34.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

35.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bouton, E. S.

38.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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

40.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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

42.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

43.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

44.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

45.

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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis