Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Twain, Mark

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Butler, Samuel

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ward, William A.

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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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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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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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 nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

28.

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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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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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Noll, Chuck

45.

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.

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Evans, Bergen

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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