Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Thurber, James

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Ziggy

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Aristophanes

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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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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Talmud, The

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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 alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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 learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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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

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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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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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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.