Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Chinese

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Bible

11.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Thurber, James

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

Aristophanes

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

24.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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

Larson, Doug

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

31.

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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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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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 doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Confucius

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Buddha