Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Aristophanes

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

Evangel

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ziggy

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

22.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Pindar

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

36.

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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Epictetus

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

Saroyan, William