Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Aristophanes

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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.

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.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Pindar

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Noll, Chuck

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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