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

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Talmud, The

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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 does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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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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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

Socrates

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Noll, Chuck

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Cato The Elder

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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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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Aristophanes

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Bible

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

Bible

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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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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