Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Marx, Eleanor

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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

Talmud, The

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Blake, William

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

Aristophanes

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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

Bible

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

45.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De