Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ziggy

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Bible

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

Ziggy

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bible

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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

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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 beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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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 is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis