Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Marilyn vos Savant

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

10.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

11.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

12.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

13.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Ward, William A.

30.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

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 man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Blake, William

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

Gabirol, Ibn

40.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Ziggy

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

44.

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

45.

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

Zenrin

46.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

James Boswell

49.

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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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel