Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

James Boswell

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Noll, Chuck

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Buddha

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

21.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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

25.

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Kraus, Karl

33.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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

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

Confucius

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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.

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Gabirol, Ibn