Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bible

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