Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Aristophanes

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Noll, Chuck

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Evans, Bergen

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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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 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 overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Bible

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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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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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