Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Ward, William A.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Cheever, John

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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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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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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