Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Cheever, John

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Coolidge, Calvin

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Bible

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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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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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.

37.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

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

44.

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Ziggy

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

Thurber, James

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