Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

- Evangel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brecht, Bertolt

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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 better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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 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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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

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Talmud, The

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

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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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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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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Butler, Samuel

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 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