Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

- Lee, Robert E.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Young, Andrew

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Pindar

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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

Blake, William

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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

Cato The Elder

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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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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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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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 wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Cheever, John