Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

- Garbutt, Frank

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Evangel

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

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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

Robbie Gass

10.

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

11.

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

Marx, Eleanor

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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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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

16.

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

Thurber, James

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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 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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

22.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

23.

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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

29.

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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Blake, William

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Bible

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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

40.

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

Bible

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.