Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Zenrin

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

10.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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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 greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

17.

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Noll, Chuck

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Evans, Bergen

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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 we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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