Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Cheever, John

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

Noll, Chuck

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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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bible

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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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

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Pindar

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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 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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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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

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

Ziggy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur