Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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

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

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Evans, Bergen

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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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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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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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 not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Bible

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

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Cullen Hightower

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant