Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

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

Ziggy

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Bible

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 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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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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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

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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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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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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cato The Elder

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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

Evangel

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Bible

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin