Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Marx, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Mencken, H. L.

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Bible

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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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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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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 wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Pindar

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ziggy

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Butler, Samuel

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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