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 always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Talmud, The

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

Pindar

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Noll, Chuck

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

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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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

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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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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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich