Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Epictetus

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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 wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Ward, William A.

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Evans, Bergen

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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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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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bible

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Noll, Chuck

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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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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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo