Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Larson, Doug

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Ziggy

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

Garbutt, Frank

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Twain, Mark

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Thurber, James

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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

Epictetus

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von