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

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

Ward, William A.

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

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

Ziggy

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Pindar

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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 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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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 greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Bible

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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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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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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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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Bible

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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 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