Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Cato The Elder

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

Buddha

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Noll, Chuck

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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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

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

Quintilian

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

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