Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Robbie Gass

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Talmud, The

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Epictetus

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Confucius

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Levenson, Samuel

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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 is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Bible

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder