Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

No man is wise enough by himself.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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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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

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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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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 is knowledge, rightly applied.

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Bouton, E. S.

22.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Blake, William

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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 only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Talmud, The

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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