Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Cheever, John

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Thurber, James

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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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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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

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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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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 person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Talmud, The

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.