Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Marx, Eleanor

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Bible

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

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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 beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Pindar

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

Cato The Elder

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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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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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 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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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 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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bible

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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

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

Kraus, Karl

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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