Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Levenson, Samuel

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Basho, Matsuo

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Blake, William

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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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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

Cheever, John

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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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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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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 oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Quintilian

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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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 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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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Aristophanes

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

Cato The Elder

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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