Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Evangel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Aristophanes

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

12.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

14.

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

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epictetus

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Evangel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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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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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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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

Noll, Chuck

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Kraus, Karl

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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

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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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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac