Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Evangel

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Bible

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

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

Confucius

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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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

Talmud, The

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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

Bible

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cato The Elder

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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