Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Cheever, John

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Brecht, Bertolt

13.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Cato The Elder

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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

28.

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

Talmud, The

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

Bible

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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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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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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 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

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

Thurber, James

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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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

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

Aristophanes

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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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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy