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

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 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

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Proverb, Chinese

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

11.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cato The Elder

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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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.

26.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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 wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Buddha

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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