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

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

Aristophanes

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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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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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Robbie Gass

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Basho, Matsuo

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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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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.