Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Quintilian

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Evangel

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.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

10.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

11.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

12.

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

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

14.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

15.

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

Cheever, John

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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 better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

22.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

24.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

31.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

35.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

37.

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

Pindar

38.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

44.

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

Confucius

45.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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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

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita