Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Evans, Bergen

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Evangel

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Talmud, The

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bouton, E. S.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Thurber, James

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

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Quintilian

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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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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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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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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 wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Ziggy

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Noll, Chuck

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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