Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Cato The Elder

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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

Noll, Chuck

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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

Ward, William A.

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Larson, Doug

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Epictetus

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Quintilian

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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 overcomes fortune.