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

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Evangel

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

Cullen Hightower

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Robbie Gass

11.

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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ziggy

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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 found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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 experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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