Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Proverb, Spanish

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Evangel

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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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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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Bible

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

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Blake, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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 thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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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