Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Robbie Gass

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Ziggy

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Saroyan, William

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

Buddha

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Socrates

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Thurber, James

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Evangel

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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

32.

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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

34.

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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, Spanish

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

42.

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

Cheever, John

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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