Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Cullen Hightower

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Brecht, Bertolt

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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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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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aristophanes

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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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.

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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

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

Ziggy

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Talmud, The

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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

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

Evangel

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

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