Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Talmud, The

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

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 man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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 is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

Bible

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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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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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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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

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Cato The Elder

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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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.