Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cocteau, Jean

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Noll, Chuck

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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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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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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Confucius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ziggy

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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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 outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Quintilian

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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