Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Larson, Doug

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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.

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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

Talmud, The

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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Bible

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Cato The Elder

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Bible

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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 is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Larson, Doug

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

Bible

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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 nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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