Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

James Boswell

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

Evans, Bergen

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

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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.

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

Thurber, James

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Quintilian

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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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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.