Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

No man is wise enough by himself.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Marx, Eleanor

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Bible

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

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

Bible

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Buddha

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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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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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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Bible

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

41.

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

Talmud, The

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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

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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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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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