Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Aristophanes

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Cato The Elder

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

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

Confucius

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

Thurber, James

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

Cheever, John

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Quintilian

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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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 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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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

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

Noll, Chuck

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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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

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon