Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Bible

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.

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

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Aristophanes

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

Gabirol, Ibn

10.

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

11.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

12.

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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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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

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

18.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

19.

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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Socrates

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

Talmud, The

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Blake, William

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Thurber, James

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

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ziggy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.