Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Proverb, Chinese

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Larson, Doug

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Blake, William

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

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

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

Noll, Chuck

11.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Robbie Gass

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Evangel

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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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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Ziggy

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

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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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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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.