Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Aristophanes

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Evangel

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

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

James Boswell

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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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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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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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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Talmud, The

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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