Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Spanish

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Garbutt, Frank

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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 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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Blake, William

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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

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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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