Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Quintilian

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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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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 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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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Bible

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

Ward, William A.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Proverb, Spanish

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

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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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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African