Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Epictetus

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Young, Andrew

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

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

Cato The Elder

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Bible

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aristophanes

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