Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Pindar

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Evangel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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

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

Cato The Elder

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.