Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Cheever, John

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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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 greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Pindar

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

Larson, Doug

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Quintilian

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

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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]

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