Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ziggy

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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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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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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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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

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Cullen Hightower

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Aristophanes

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Cato The Elder

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