Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Proverb, Spanish

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Blake, William

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

Ziggy

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Carlyle, Thomas