Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

No man is wise enough by himself.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Garbutt, Frank

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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.

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Zenrin

12.

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

Bouton, E. S.

13.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

15.

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

Socrates

16.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Ziggy

20.

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

21.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Aristophanes

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

26.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Evans, Bergen

28.

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

Proverb, Turkish

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

Larson, Doug

31.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

32.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

34.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

35.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

36.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

39.

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

40.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

41.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

42.

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

44.

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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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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