Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bible

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

Aristophanes

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

Marx, Eleanor

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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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 found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Thurber, James

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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

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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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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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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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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Ward, William A.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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