Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Ziggy

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Turkish

10.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

11.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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

15.

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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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Thurber, James

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Aristophanes

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.