Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ziggy

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Ziggy

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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 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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Basho, Matsuo

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

James Boswell

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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 wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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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

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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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 wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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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

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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