Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Ziggy

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

Garbutt, Frank

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

10.

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

Ward, William A.

11.

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

Cullen Hightower

12.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Quintilian

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

Bible

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

Robbie Gass

16.

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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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

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

Thurber, James

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

26.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Epictetus

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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