Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

- Smollett, Tobias G.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Pindar

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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 thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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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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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Evans, Bergen

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Thurber, James

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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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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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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 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 overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich 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.