Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

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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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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

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Ziggy

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

Buddha

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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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

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

Aristophanes

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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