Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

4.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Bible

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Confucius

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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.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Cullen Hightower

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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

24.

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

Ziggy

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

27.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

30.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Garbutt, Frank

34.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

35.

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

36.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

37.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

38.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

43.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

45.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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.