Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

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

Noll, Chuck

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

10.

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 we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Garbutt, Frank

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

18.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

23.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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

Larson, Doug

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Buddha

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

36.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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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 is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

46.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.