Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

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

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

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Noll, Chuck

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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 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 wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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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 learning what to overlook.

James, William

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

30.

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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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Ziggy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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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 overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace