Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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.

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Aristophanes

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

Ziggy

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

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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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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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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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

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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 nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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

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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 learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Ward, William A.

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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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 beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Talmud, The

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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