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

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Ziggy

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Marx, Eleanor

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Aristophanes

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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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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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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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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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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Talmud, The

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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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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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius