Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Mencken, H. L.

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.

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

Twain, Mark

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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.

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Saroyan, William

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Quintilian

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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.