Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Larson, Doug

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bible

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ziggy

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

45.

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

46.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Buscaglia, Leo