Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

- Bouton, E. S.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Cato The Elder

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bible

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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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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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Talmud, The

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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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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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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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]

Bible

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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 we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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

Quintilian

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

Noll, Chuck

43.

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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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 is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von