Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Noll, Chuck

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

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Evans, Bergen

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Kraus, Karl

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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

Cato The Elder

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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

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

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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