Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

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

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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.

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

Talmud, The

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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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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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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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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.

25.

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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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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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 overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Bouton, E. S.

31.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Aristophanes

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cato The Elder

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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

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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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