Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- James Boswell

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

James Boswell

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Thurber, James

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kraus, Karl

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

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

Bible

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Quintilian

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Cato The Elder

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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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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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