Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Young, Andrew

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Twain, Mark

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Zenrin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Confucius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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 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 nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Aristophanes

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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 thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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

Buddha

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

Ziggy

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