Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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

Talmud, The

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Ziggy

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

Epictetus

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

Cullen Hightower

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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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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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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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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 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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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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

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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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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank