Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

- Quinault, Philippe

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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 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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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

Blake, William

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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

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

Bible

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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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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

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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 oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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

Buddha

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Buddha

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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 wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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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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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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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

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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Wisdom is found only in truth.