Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Proverb, Camerounian

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Buddha

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Blake, William

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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

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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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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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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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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Ward, William A.

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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

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

Larson, Doug

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

Cato The Elder

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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