Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Evangel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Larson, Doug

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

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Aristophanes

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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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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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Evans, Bergen

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

44.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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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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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark