Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Noll, Chuck

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epictetus

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

11.

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

Cullen Hightower

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Cato The Elder

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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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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bouton, E. S.

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

18.

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

Quintilian

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

Larson, Doug

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

26.

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.

27.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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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

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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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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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

Ward, William A.

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Evans, Bergen

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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

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

Kraus, Karl

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