Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Pindar

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Evangel

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Bible

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

Bible

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

34.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Noll, Chuck

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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 is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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

44.

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

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Blake, William

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

48.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Proverb, Camerounian