Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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

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

Buddha

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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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 supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

13.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Evangel

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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 the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Epictetus

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Bible

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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 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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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

Noll, Chuck

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich