Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Noll, Chuck

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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 overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Cheever, John

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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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 not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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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 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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Blake, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth