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

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 thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Blake, William

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

Quintilian

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

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

10.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

11.

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

Bible

12.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

14.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

15.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

16.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

17.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

18.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

24.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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

27.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Bouton, E. S.

29.

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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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.

31.

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

Epictetus

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Proverb, Turkish

36.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

37.

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

Thurber, James

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

41.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

42.

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

43.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

44.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

45.

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

Evangel

46.

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

Robbie Gass

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

Bible

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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

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

Butler, Samuel