Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Evangel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Confucius

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

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

Evangel

11.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

24.

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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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.

26.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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 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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Talmud, The

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Thurber, James

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Epictetus

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

Ziggy

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.