Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Evans, Bergen

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Butler, Samuel

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Confucius

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Pindar

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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