Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

Oprah Winfrey

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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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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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Bible

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cato The Elder

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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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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 only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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 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

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Quintilian

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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