Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Larson, Doug

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Cullen Hightower

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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 not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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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 doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Bible

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Evangel

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

Bible

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Robbie Gass

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Pindar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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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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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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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 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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Blake, William

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo