Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Proverb, Camerounian

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Cato The Elder

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Noll, Chuck

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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 we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Bible

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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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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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

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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 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

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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

Pindar

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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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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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Levenson, Samuel