Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

- Smollett, Tobias G.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

11.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Ziggy

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

18.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

25.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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 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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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

40.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

41.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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

Pindar

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.