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

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Epictetus

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

Talmud, The

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cato The Elder

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Ward, William A.

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Confucius

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

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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Noll, Chuck

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Young, Andrew