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

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

Aristophanes

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Talmud, The

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

20.

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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Epictetus

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

31.

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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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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 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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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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

Ziggy

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

42.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

49.

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

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund