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

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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.

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

Larson, Doug

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

Wisdom is found only in truth.

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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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

29.

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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cato The Elder

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Robbie Gass

37.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.