Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

No man is wise enough by himself.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Ziggy

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Aristophanes

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

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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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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Cheever, John

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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 wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Blake, William

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

Talmud, The

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Quintilian

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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 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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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

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