Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

13.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

18.

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

19.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

21.

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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

25.

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

Pindar

26.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

27.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

28.

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

Evans, Bergen

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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

30.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

31.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

32.

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

33.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

34.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cato The Elder

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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

40.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

41.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

45.

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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

47.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cullen Hightower

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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