Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Young, Andrew

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Proverb, Chinese

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

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

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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 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

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Confucius

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Ward, William A.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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