Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Evangel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pindar

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Garbutt, Frank

10.

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

Noll, Chuck

11.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

12.

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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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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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.

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

Talmud, The

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

Bible

20.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

29.

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

James Boswell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Evangel

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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 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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

43.

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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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