Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Noll, Chuck

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

12.

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 beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Gabirol, Ibn

15.

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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

17.

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

Ziggy

18.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

19.

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

20.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Marilyn vos Savant

22.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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

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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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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

27.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

28.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

41.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

42.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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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 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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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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

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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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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