Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Quintilian

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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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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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Thurber, James

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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