Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

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

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Bible

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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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Proverb, Turkish

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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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]

Bible

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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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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Talmud, The

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

James Boswell

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

Bible

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Cato The Elder

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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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 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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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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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 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