Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Noll, Chuck

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.

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

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

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

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

Buddha

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bouton, E. S.

25.

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

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Aristophanes

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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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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible