Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Blake, William

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Epictetus

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Larson, Doug

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

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

Bible

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Quintilian

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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

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

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

Ziggy

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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

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.