Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Maeterlinck, Maurice

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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

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

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Socrates

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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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

James Boswell

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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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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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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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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

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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

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Epictetus

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Cato The Elder

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Robbie Gass

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug