Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Wisdom

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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

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

Larson, Doug

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

Bible

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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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

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 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

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

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

Bible

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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

Pindar

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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