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 alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Talmud, The

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

Thurber, James

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Cullen Hightower

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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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.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Saroyan, William

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

Ziggy

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Proverb, Spanish

42.

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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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