Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Zenrin

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Thurber, James

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

Cullen Hightower

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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 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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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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

Bible

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Evans, Bergen

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Quintilian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

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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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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