Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cullen Hightower

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

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

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

Evans, Bergen

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Blake, William

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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]

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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.

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

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

Robbie Gass

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

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Epictetus

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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