Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

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

James Boswell

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Levenson, Samuel

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Butler, Samuel

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Epictetus

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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 the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.