Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Fitzhenry, R. I.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Bible

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Cato The Elder

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Aristophanes

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Confucius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Evangel

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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

Evans, Bergen

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Talmud, The

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides