Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Evangel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Confucius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aristophanes

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

Evans, Bergen

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Bible

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

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 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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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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