Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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

Noll, Chuck

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.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Cato The Elder

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Ziggy

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Aristophanes

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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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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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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Evangel

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Bible

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Larson, Doug

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus