Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Cheever, John

Best Quotes about Wisdom

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Chinese

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

28.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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