Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Pindar

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Zenrin

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Quintilian

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Epictetus

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Ward, William A.

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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

Saroyan, William

35.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Confucius

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

Evangel

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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.

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke