Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

- Clemenceau, Georges

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

James Boswell

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

Robbie Gass

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Quintilian

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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

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

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.