Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

- Smollett, Tobias G.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Larson, Doug

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Noll, Chuck

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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

Ziggy

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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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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

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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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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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Aristophanes

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Evangel

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.