Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Brecht, Bertolt

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Turkish

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Buscaglia, Leo

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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

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

Talmud, The

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Buddha

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Bible

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

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

39.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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