Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

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

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Talmud, The

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

James Boswell

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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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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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Ward, William A.

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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 beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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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 alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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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 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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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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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Talmud, The

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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 is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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