Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ziggy

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

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Thurber, James

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

Elizabeth, Queen

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

10.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

11.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

12.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

13.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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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

18.

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

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

Quintilian

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Epictetus

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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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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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

30.

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

31.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

32.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

33.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

38.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

40.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bible

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Bible

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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 heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Proverb, Spanish