Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

- Lee, Robert E.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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 the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Robbie Gass

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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 end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

24.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Talmud, The

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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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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

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Zenrin

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Brecht, Bertolt