Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

- Clemenceau, Georges

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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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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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 is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

Quintilian

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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

Aristophanes

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.