Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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

Epictetus

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, Chinese

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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 men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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 nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Confucius

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No man is wise enough by himself.