Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cato The Elder

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Confucius

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Quintilian

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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 not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

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

Young, Andrew

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Cheever, John

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

Pindar

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.