Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

- Birch, Frank

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Watson, Thomas J.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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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 always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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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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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Evangel

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Turkish

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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 makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aristophanes

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas