Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

- Azai, Rabbi Ben

Best Quotes about Wisdom

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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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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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Talmud, The

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Ward, William A.

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bible

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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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

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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

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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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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.

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.