Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Socrates

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Robbie Gass

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Bible

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ward, William A.