Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Evangel

10.

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

11.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

12.

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

Proverb, Turkish

13.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

14.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

18.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

19.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

20.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

26.

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

27.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

28.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

29.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

30.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

31.

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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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

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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]

Bible

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Garbutt, Frank

37.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

38.

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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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

40.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Ziggy

42.

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

43.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

44.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Marx, Eleanor