Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Evans, Bergen

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Thurber, James

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

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ziggy

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Quintilian

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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 and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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 end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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

Brecht, Bertolt

43.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish