Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cocteau, Jean

2.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

4.

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

Quintilian

5.

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

6.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

7.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

12.

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

13.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziggy

15.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

18.

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

Levenson, Samuel

19.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

20.

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

Basho, Matsuo

21.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

22.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

23.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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 wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

27.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Marx, Eleanor

30.

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

Thurber, James

31.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

32.

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

33.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

39.

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

Robbie Gass

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

42.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

43.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

44.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

45.

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

Evangel

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

49.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

50.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.