Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Fitzhenry, R. I.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

10.

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

Buddha

11.

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

12.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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 the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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 man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

24.

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

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

27.

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

Talmud, The

30.

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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 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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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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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese