Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Proverb, Turkish

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Blake, William

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

Noll, Chuck

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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 mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Garbutt, Frank

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Pindar

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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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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Zenrin

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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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 is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.