Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

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

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

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Confucius

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

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Ziggy

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.