Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Cato The Elder

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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

Cullen Hightower

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Pindar

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

Buddha

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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