Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pindar

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

Talmud, The

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Confucius

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Robbie Gass

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Noll, Chuck

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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