Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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

Proverb, Chinese

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

10.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

12.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

13.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ziggy

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

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

43.

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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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

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.