Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Marilyn vos Savant

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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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 beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Blake, William

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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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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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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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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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Pindar

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Larson, Doug

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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 only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Cullen Hightower

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.