Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Ziggy

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James Boswell

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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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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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

Quintilian

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Proverb, Camerounian

29.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Confucius

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

38.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Talmud, The

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

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

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

Socrates

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

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

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