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

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cato The Elder

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

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

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

11.

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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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

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

14.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Ziggy

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Noll, Chuck

21.

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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Camerounian

25.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

Gabirol, Ibn

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

34.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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

Evangel

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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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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 nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

44.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

45.

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 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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis