Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

No man is wise enough by himself.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Buddha

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Marx, Eleanor

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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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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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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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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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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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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

Aristophanes

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

Noll, Chuck

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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 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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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates