Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

- Clemenceau, Georges

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Socrates

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Basho, Matsuo

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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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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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Confucius

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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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 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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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Epictetus

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

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

Quintilian

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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.