Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aristophanes

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

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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

Talmud, The

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Evans, Bergen

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

Quintilian

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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.

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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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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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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.