Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wisest have the most authority.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gabirol, Ibn

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Young, Andrew

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Elizabeth, Queen

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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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

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

Bible

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

Evangel

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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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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Blake, William

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Aristophanes

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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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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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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 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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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 overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)