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

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Robbie Gass

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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

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

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Young, Andrew

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

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

Talmud, The

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

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 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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark