Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- James Boswell

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Ward, William A.

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Pindar

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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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

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Cato The Elder

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

Bible

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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 wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Quintilian

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Epictetus

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