Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Elizabeth, Queen

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

10.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Quintilian

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

Bible

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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

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

Blake, William

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Larson, Doug

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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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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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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.

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.