Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

- Aristophanes

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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.

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

Thurber, James

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

10.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

11.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ward, William A.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Marx, Eleanor

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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 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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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Cato The Elder

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

Confucius

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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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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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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