Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Quintilian

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Confucius

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

12.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

13.

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

14.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

15.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Buddha

18.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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 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

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

23.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

24.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

25.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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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 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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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

31.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

41.

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

Zenrin

42.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

Talmud, The

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