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

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

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

Buddha

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

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

Quintilian

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Talmud, The

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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Talmud, The

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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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 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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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Bible

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.