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

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

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

Kraus, Karl

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

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

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Quintilian

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Larson, Doug

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

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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 price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von