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 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 nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Cullen Hightower

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Buddha

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

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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Pindar

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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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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

17.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Evangel

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Ziggy

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

Talmud, The

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Noll, Chuck

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

39.

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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 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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.