Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

4.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

5.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

6.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

7.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

8.

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

15.

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

Noll, Chuck

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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

17.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

19.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

20.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

21.

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

James Boswell

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

24.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

25.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Socrates

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Boileau, Nicholas

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

36.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

37.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

40.

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

Saroyan, William

41.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

42.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

43.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.