Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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

Noll, Chuck

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Zenrin

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

Talmud, The

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.