Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pindar

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

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

10.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

11.

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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

28.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Epictetus

34.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

36.

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

Talmud, The

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

Robbie Gass

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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