Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wisdom

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Evangel

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

Confucius

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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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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Talmud, The

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.