Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Garbutt, Frank

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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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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Talmud, The

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

Bible

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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 not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Marx, Eleanor

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

33.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Bible

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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.