Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Noll, Chuck

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

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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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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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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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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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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

Bible

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

Blake, William

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Talmud, The

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Epictetus

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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