Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

- Robbie Gass

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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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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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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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Zenrin

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 learning what to overlook.

James, William