Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bible

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

Larson, Doug

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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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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Blake, William

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

Quintilian

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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