Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Evans, Bergen

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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 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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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