Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Talmud, The

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Quintilian

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Socrates

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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 man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Cheever, John

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Noll, Chuck

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Ziggy

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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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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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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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

Bible

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