Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Twain, Mark

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Turkish

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Cato The Elder

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epictetus

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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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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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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

Bible

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Confucius

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

Thurber, James

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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 only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard