Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Epictetus

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

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

Bible

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

James Boswell

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Pindar

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Larson, Doug

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Noll, Chuck

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cato The Elder

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Blake, William

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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

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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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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