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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Blake, William

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

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

11.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Talmud, The

18.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

25.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

33.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

34.

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

Evans, Bergen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Ward, William A.

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Aristophanes

42.

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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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 outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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