Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Wisdom

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Blake, William

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Evans, Bergen

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

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Cato The Elder

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

Epictetus

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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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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

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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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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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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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

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Pindar

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

Bible

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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