Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Talmud, The

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

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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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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Talmud, The

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

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Basho, Matsuo

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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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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Cullen Hightower

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

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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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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, 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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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.