Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Young, Andrew

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Garbutt, Frank

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.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Ward, William A.

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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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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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 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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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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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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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marilyn vos Savant