Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Talmud, The

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Noll, Chuck

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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

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

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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Evangel

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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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

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Confucius

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

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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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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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