Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Bouton, E. S.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Saroyan, William

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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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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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Quintilian

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Larson, Doug

28.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

34.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Cheever, John

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

39.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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

41.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Talmud, The

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Evans, Bergen

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

Bible

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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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