Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Thurber, James

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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 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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.