Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

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

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

15.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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

Marilyn vos Savant

18.

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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

21.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

22.

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

Evans, Bergen

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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 man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

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

Cato The Elder

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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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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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Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Epictetus

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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