Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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

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

Evangel

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

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

Blake, William

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

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Ziggy

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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 the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Buddha

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cullen Hightower

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

43.

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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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