Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

Evangel

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Talmud, The

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

Blake, William

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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 wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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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.

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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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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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Cheever, John

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg