Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ziggy

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Blake, William

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Pindar

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Talmud, The

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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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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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

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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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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

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

Bible

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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 beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

27.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Twain, Mark

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

34.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

Ziggy

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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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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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.