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

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

2.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

3.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

4.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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

8.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

9.

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

Larson, Doug

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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.

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

13.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

14.

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

Talmud, The

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

Confucius

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

26.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

32.

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

33.

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

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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.

35.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

36.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

41.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

44.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kraus, Karl

46.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

Garbutt, Frank

49.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

50.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice