Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Mencken, H. L.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Buddha

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

Evangel

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.