Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Wisdom

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

12.

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.

14.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

15.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Zenrin

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Ziggy

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Quintilian

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

27.

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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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

29.

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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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

33.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

35.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

38.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Thurber, James

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ward, William A.

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

Bible

49.

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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis