Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Talmud, The

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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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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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Bible

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

Talmud, The

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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 is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Pindar

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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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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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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 not only gets, but once got, retains.