Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Epictetus

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

10.

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

Proverb, Turkish

11.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Blake, William

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Larson, Doug

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

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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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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Bible

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

35.

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

Marx, Eleanor

37.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Proverb, Camerounian

45.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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 is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Bible

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

Aristophanes

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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.