Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Buddha

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Quintilian

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thurber, James

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Evans, Bergen

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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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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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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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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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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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Brecht, Bertolt

39.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Bible

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

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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.