Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Wisdom

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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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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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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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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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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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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

Ziggy

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Aristophanes

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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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

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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.