Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Marx, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Evangel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aristophanes

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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

Ward, William A.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.