Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Confucius

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bouton, E. S.

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Ziggy

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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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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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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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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 heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Pindar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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