Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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

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

Noll, Chuck

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cato The Elder

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Kraus, Karl

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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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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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Talmud, The

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

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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

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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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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

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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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

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

Larson, Doug