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

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

Bible

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

12.

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

Buddha

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Cato The Elder

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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

Talmud, The

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

35.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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 nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Blake, William

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.