Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

James Boswell

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Cullen Hightower

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 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

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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

Quintilian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Blake, William

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Bible

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Bible

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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 wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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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

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von