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

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Ziggy

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Basho, Matsuo

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Zenrin

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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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 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 doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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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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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Noll, Chuck

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No man is wise enough by himself.