Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Bible

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Proverb, Turkish

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Epictetus

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

Buddha

10.

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

11.

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

Pindar

12.

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

Confucius

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

15.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

16.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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.

Socrates

18.

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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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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 only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

25.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

26.

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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

28.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

29.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

30.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

31.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

33.

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

James Boswell

34.

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.

35.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Noll, Chuck

40.

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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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

44.

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

Ziggy

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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.