Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Wisdom

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Twain, Mark

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

Aristophanes

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Noll, Chuck

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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Blake, William

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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 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

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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

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

Bible

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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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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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Cheever, John

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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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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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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 knowledge, rightly applied.

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Talmud, The

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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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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

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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