Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Pindar

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

Evans, Bergen

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

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Ward, William A.

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Bible

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

Ziggy

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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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

40.

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

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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