Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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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 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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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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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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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Butler, Samuel

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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.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Evans, Bergen

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Noll, Chuck

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.