Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Bible

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Socrates

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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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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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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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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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Talmud, The

26.

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Bible

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ziggy

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

Aristophanes

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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

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

Evangel

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Epictetus

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Talmud, The

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

Confucius

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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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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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