Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

2.

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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

4.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

5.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

Aristophanes

7.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

9.

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

Evans, Bergen

10.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

11.

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

12.

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

Ward, William A.

13.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

14.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

18.

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Saroyan, William

20.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

21.

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

Garbutt, Frank

22.

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

Basho, Matsuo

23.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

24.

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

25.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

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

33.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

34.

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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Cullen Hightower

40.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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

Ziggy

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

Confucius

44.

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

Bible

45.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

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

Larson, Doug

47.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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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