Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wisest have the most authority.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Evans, Bergen

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Confucius

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

Bible

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Quintilian

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

Garbutt, Frank

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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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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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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar