Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Aristophanes

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Cheever, John

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Ziggy

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Blake, William

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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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 wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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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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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Quintilian

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

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

Ward, William A.

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Confucius

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Marx, Eleanor

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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

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel