Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Robbie Gass

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Socrates

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ward, William A.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

11.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Evangel

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

21.

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

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Cocteau, Jean

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

31.

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

Marx, Eleanor

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

34.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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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 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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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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