Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Pindar

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Chinese

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Quintilian

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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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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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

Blake, William

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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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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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

James Boswell

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb, Spanish

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Cato The Elder

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