Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cullen Hightower

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Thurber, James

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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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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Basho, Matsuo

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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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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

Blake, William

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

Socrates