Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Bible

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

Noll, Chuck

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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 learning what to overlook.

James, William

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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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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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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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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Quintilian

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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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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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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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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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cullen Hightower

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Talmud, The

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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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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles