Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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 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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Confucius

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Turkish

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Aristophanes

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Young, Andrew

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

Thurber, James

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan