Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Wisdom

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Evans, Bergen

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Quintilian

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

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

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ziggy

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

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

Evangel

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Talmud, The