Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

No man is wise enough by himself.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Evans, Bergen

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Bible

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

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

Buddha

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

James Boswell

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

15.

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

16.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

18.

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

20.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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

Cocteau, Jean

22.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bible

24.

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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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

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bible

29.

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.

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

35.

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

Evangel

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

Noll, Chuck

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus