Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epictetus

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

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Bible

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Evangel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cullen Hightower

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Cato The Elder

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Quintilian

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Bible