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

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Zenrin

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Bible

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Saroyan, William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Noll, Chuck

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Quintilian

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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 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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

25.

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

Cato The Elder

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

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

Aristophanes

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

43.

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

Ziggy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Bible

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

49.

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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb