Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Bible

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Kraus, Karl

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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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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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Evans, Bergen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Noll, Chuck

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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 man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De