Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Talmud, The

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

James Boswell

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Larson, Doug

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Blake, William

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ziggy

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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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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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Pindar

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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 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 meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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