Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

- Maeterlinck, Maurice

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Robbie Gass

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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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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Evangel

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Talmud, The

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Talmud, The

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.