Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

2.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

3.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

4.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

5.

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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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

7.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

9.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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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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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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

15.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

16.

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

17.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

18.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

20.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

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

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

26.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

27.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

28.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

29.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

30.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

31.

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

32.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

33.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

34.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

35.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

36.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

37.

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

Zenrin

38.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

39.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

44.

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

Bible

45.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

50.

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.