Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Larson, Doug

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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.

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

Confucius

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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

Bouton, E. S.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Socrates

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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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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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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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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

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.