Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Bible

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

11.

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

Bible

12.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

13.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Bible

17.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Confucius

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Thurber, James

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

Young, Andrew

25.

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

33.

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

Evangel

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

Garbutt, Frank

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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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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cullen Hightower

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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