Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Buddha

14.

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

Talmud, The

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Evangel

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

Watson, Thomas J.

30.

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

31.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

32.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

34.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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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

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Pindar

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

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish