Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Camerounian

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

11.

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

Thurber, James

12.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

14.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

15.

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

Quintilian

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

17.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

18.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

19.

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

20.

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

Cocteau, Jean

21.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Garbutt, Frank

24.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

25.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

26.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Talmud, The

29.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

30.

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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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 and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

35.

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

36.

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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

James Boswell

41.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

44.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

49.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.