Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Proverb, Turkish

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Epictetus

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

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

Quintilian

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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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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]

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

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Confucius

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Bible

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

James Boswell

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Talmud, The

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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

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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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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.