Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Quintilian

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Quintilian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Aristophanes

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese