Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Gabirol, Ibn

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Blake, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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