Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

- Birch, Frank

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bible

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

Cheever, John

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

11.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

12.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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

Marilyn vos Savant

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

17.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

18.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

19.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

20.

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

Noll, Chuck

21.

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

22.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Pindar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

Cocteau, Jean

32.

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.

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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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 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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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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

40.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

42.

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

Ziggy

44.

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

Robbie Gass

45.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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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