Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

- Larson, Doug

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Talmud, The

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

Cullen Hightower

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ziggy

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Blake, William

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Bouton, E. S.

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Basho, Matsuo

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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