Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Evangel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

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

Cheever, John

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

James Boswell

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Zenrin

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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 is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Noll, Chuck