Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Ward, William A.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

10.

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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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 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

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Blake, William

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb, Turkish

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

34.

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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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cato The Elder

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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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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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