Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Confucius

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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

Thurber, James

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

Evangel

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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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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.

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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 doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Aristophanes

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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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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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Robbie Gass

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Evans, Bergen

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Quintilian

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Chinese