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

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

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

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Quintilian

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

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Evangel

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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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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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