Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

- Birch, Frank

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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

Noll, Chuck

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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 Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Talmud, The

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Evangel

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

Blake, William

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

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

Talmud, The

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De