Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Aristophanes

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Young, Andrew

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Cheever, John

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

Epictetus

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

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

Confucius

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

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Evangel

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Zenrin

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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

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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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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

James Boswell

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Thurber, James

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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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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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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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