Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Buddha

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Bible

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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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

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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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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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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.

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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 wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Buscaglia, Leo