Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wisest have the most authority.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Twain, Mark

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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

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

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Evans, Bergen

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

21.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Blake, William

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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 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 ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Buscaglia, 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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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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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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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

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Garbutt, Frank

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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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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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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]

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