Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

- Robbie Gass

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Socrates

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

Confucius

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Noll, Chuck

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Evangel

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

Kraus, Karl

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.