Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

- Proverb, Camerounian

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Quintilian

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Bible

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

13.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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 beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Evangel

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

19.

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

21.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Pindar

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Thurber, James

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

Noll, Chuck