Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Zenrin

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Confucius

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Thurber, James

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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 wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Bouton, E. S.

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quintilian

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Evans, Bergen

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Pindar

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Epictetus

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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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.