Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

Bible

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

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.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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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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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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

Bible

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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 and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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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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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Aristophanes

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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 single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

Robbie Gass

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

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Elizabeth, Queen