Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Saroyan, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Blake, William

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Buddha

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

Twain, Mark

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

Noll, Chuck

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

13.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

14.

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

Cullen Hightower

15.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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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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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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

31.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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