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

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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 man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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