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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.
- Quinault, Philippe
Wisdom Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides

2.
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

3.
Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
Billings, Josh

4.
The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

5.
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

6.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Epictetus

8.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

9.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.
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

11.
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]
Bible

12.
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Quarles, Francis

13.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Franklin, Benjamin

14.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.
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

16.
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower

17.
The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]
Bible

18.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
Thurber, James

19.
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
Marx, Eleanor

20.
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

21.
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

22.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Francis of Assisi, St.

23.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
Talmud, The

25.
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

26.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phaedrus

27.
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
Lee, Robert E.

28.
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Proverb, Turkish

29.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.
Who is wise? One who learns from all.
Talmud, The

31.
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

32.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Brecht, Bertolt

33.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace

34.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant

35.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates

36.
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

37.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Carlyle, Thomas

39.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
Cheever, John

40.
Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

41.
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
Zenrin

42.
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

43.
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Buscaglia, Leo

44.
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

45.
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Plautus, Titus Maccius

46.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Blake, William

47.
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
Bouton, E. S.

48.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Mencken, H. L.

49.
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

50.
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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