Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Blake, William

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Thurber, James

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Pindar

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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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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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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Talmud, The

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Quintilian

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin