Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

- Quinault, Philippe

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Evangel

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cullen Hightower

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

10.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

11.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

19.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

21.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

22.

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

Young, Andrew

24.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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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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 end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

28.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

29.

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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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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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 doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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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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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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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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin