Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Evangel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Larson, Doug

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

Cullen Hightower

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

11.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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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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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thurber, James

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

39.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Aristophanes

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.