Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Robbie Gass

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thurber, James

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Confucius

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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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 nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Aristophanes

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

Evangel

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

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