Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Cullen Hightower

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Cheever, John

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Confucius

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.