Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

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.

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

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Cato The Elder

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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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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 outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Thurber, James

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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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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Evangel

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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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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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

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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