Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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 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.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Cullen Hightower

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Thurber, James

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Bible

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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 is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass