Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ziggy

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Young, Andrew

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

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Epictetus

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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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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Thurber, James

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Evangel

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cato The Elder

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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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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