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

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

Twain, Mark

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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

Noll, Chuck

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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

Pindar

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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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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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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Evangel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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