Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saroyan, William

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

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.

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

Oprah Winfrey

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Buddha

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

Blake, William

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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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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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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 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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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 comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Cato The Elder

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

Cullen Hightower

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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