Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Noll, Chuck

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

11.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thurber, James

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

Quintilian

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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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Cato The Elder

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Blake, William

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Talmud, The

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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

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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 makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.