Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Blake, William

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bible

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

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

Thurber, James

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

18.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Elizabeth, Queen

20.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

21.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

22.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Boileau, Nicholas

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

26.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Talmud, The

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

31.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

32.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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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

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Epictetus

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

Bible

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Chinese