Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

No man is wise enough by himself.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Saroyan, William

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Bible

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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 doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Larson, Doug

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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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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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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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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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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Bible

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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