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

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

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Epictetus

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aristophanes

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Pindar

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Evangel

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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

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges