Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

7.

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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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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

10.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

11.

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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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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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

15.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

16.

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

Noll, Chuck

17.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

23.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

27.

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

28.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

29.

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

Aristophanes

30.

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

Pindar

31.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

33.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

34.

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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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

38.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

40.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

41.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

42.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

43.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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

45.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

46.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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