Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

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

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

10.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

14.

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

Quintilian

15.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

16.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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

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

Garbutt, Frank

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

20.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Larson, Doug

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Bible

33.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

44.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

45.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Ziggy