Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Epictetus

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Cheever, John

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

Zenrin

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

17.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Talmud, The

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

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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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

29.

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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

32.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Evans, Bergen

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Cullen Hightower

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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

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

Talmud, The

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

Noll, Chuck

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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.