Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Thurber, James

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

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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

James Boswell

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

21.

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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Evans, Bergen

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

43.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.