Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Ziggy

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Basho, Matsuo

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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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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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Thurber, James

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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

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

42.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius