Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Marilyn vos Savant

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Thurber, James

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Mencken, H. L.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, 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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bible

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Cato The Elder

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Larson, Doug

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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