Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Epictetus

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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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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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 beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Cato The Elder

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

Confucius

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

Bible

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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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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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 knowledge, rightly applied.