Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

- Maeterlinck, Maurice

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

Buddha

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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 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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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pindar

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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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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 alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Ziggy

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De