Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Robbie Gass

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Cheever, John

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

Bible

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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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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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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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Butler, Samuel

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Epictetus

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Evangel

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.