Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

- 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

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

Evans, Bergen

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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

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

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epictetus

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

Aristophanes

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Bible

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

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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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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Evangel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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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 is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus