Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Boileau, Nicholas

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Quintilian

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.

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

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Aristophanes

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Confucius

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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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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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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

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.