Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Confucius

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Blake, William

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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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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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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

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Zenrin

34.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

43.

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

Talmud, The

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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