Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

No man is wise enough by himself.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

2.

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

Bible

3.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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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 is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

10.

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

11.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

12.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

13.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

17.

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

Confucius

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

22.

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

Aristophanes

23.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

24.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

25.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

26.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

27.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

28.

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

29.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

30.

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

31.

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

Buddha

34.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Garbutt, Frank

37.

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

Cocteau, Jean

38.

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

Butler, Samuel

39.

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

Cullen Hightower

40.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

41.

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

42.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

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

Thurber, James

46.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

48.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

49.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

50.

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

Socrates