Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cato The Elder

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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

Confucius

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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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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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Thurber, James

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

Evans, Bergen

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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

Evangel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Cheever, John

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Ward, William A.

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Wisdom is found only in truth.