Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

- Marilyn vos Savant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

Noll, Chuck

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Twain, Mark

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

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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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

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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

Blake, William

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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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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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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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Kraus, Karl

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis