Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Thurber, James

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Noll, Chuck

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

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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 hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cato The Elder

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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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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]

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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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.

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

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