Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bible

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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 Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had 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 wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.