Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Oprah Winfrey

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Garbutt, Frank

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

17.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Ziggy

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

Evans, Bergen

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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 wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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

Robbie Gass

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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