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

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

Young, Andrew

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Levenson, Samuel

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

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

Confucius

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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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Bible

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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 oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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

Basho, Matsuo

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

James Boswell

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

Cullen Hightower

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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