Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Young, Andrew

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Cato The Elder

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Aristophanes

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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 principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Cullen Hightower

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Quintilian

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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 only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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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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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything