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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
Wisdom Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Chaucer, Geoffrey

2.
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

3.
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

4.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Larson, Doug

5.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Franklin, Benjamin

6.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant

7.
A nation's treasure is its scholars.
Proverb, Yiddish

8.
The price of wisdom is eternal thought.
Birch, Frank

9.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.
Bible

10.
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
Butler, Samuel

11.
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
James, William

12.
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
Bouton, E. S.

13.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Collins, John Churton

14.
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

15.
Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
Evangel

17.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
Elizabeth, Queen

19.
Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.
Smollett, Tobias G.

20.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander

21.
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower

22.
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

23.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Basho, Matsuo

24.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides

25.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

26.
The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
Garbutt, Frank

27.
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.

28.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]
Bible

29.
The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]
Bible

30.
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]
Bible

31.
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

32.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Gabirol, Ibn

33.
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
Zenrin

34.
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Plautus, Titus Maccius

35.
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

36.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Twain, Mark

37.
Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

38.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Goldsmith, Oliver

39.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phaedrus

40.
The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

41.
It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.
Quinault, Philippe

42.
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

43.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Clemenceau, Georges

44.
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

45.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Blake, William

46.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Blake, William

47.
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
Buddha

48.
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Levenson, Samuel

49.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.
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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