Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Young, Andrew

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

Aristophanes

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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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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Butler, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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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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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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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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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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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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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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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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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 scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Ward, William A.