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

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich 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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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Talmud, The

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Larson, Doug

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Quintilian

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

Bible

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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 is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Epictetus

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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