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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
- Carlyle, Thomas
Wisdom Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

2.
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Plautus, Titus Maccius

3.
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass

4.
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
Proverb, Spanish

5.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

6.
Wise men still seek Him today.
Bell, Dan

7.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace

8.
Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.
Smollett, Tobias G.

9.
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

10.
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

11.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Blake, William

12.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Brecht, Bertolt

13.
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
Butler, Samuel

14.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates

15.
Wise care keeps what it has gained.
Proverb, Danish

16.
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
Zenrin

17.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius

18.
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
Elizabeth, Queen

19.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
Thurber, James

20.
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Noll, Chuck

21.
The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

22.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Blake, William

23.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Ziggy

25.
Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.
Bible

26.
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus

27.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phaedrus

28.
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Aurelius, Marcus

29.
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Proverb, Turkish

30.
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles

31.
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

32.
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

33.
Who is wise? One who learns from all.
Talmud, The

34.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
Azai, Rabbi Ben

35.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]
Bible

36.
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
Bouton, E. S.

37.
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

38.
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
Proverb, Camerounian

39.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

41.
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

42.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.
Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
Evans, Bergen

44.
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates

45.
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Proverb, Chinese

46.
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

47.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Kraus, Karl

48.
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.

49.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Goldsmith, Oliver

50.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Carlyle, Thomas


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