Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Buddha

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

Evans, Bergen

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Talmud, The

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

Ziggy

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

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

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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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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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

Pindar

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

Thurber, James

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

Bible

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Proverb, Spanish