Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Bouton, E. S.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Bible

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Talmud, The

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Basho, Matsuo

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Noll, Chuck

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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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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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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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The