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

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Buddha

10.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Garbutt, Frank

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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bible

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

Pindar

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

22.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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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 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 the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Robbie Gass

29.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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