Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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

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

Young, Andrew

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

Brecht, Bertolt

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Buddha

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb, Spanish

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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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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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Zenrin