Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

10.

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

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

13.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Bible

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

Bible

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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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 supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Epictetus

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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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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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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