Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Marx, Eleanor

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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

Marilyn vos Savant

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Pindar

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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

15.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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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

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

26.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Epictetus

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

Bible

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

Evans, Bergen

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

Noll, Chuck

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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.