Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

- Phaedrus

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 only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Bible

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Talmud, The

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Larson, Doug

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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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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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

26.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

27.

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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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

31.

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

Ziggy

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Confucius

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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 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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.