Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

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

Epictetus

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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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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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Ziggy

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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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 is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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

Bouton, E. S.

31.

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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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 Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon