Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Evans, Bergen

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Epictetus

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Bible

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

Buddha

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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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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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cato The Elder

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Evangel

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

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Pindar