Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Evangel

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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 wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Buddha

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

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Quintilian

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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.

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Confucius

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

Ziggy

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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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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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 only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.