Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

James Boswell

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ziggy

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cullen Hightower

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Thurber, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

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

Larson, Doug

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Talmud, The

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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 we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.