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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Young, Andrew

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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

11.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

12.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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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 outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Pindar

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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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

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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