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 and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Ward, William A.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Blake, William

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thurber, James

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

Noll, Chuck

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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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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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Socrates

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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

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Evans, Bergen

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Robbie Gass

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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 greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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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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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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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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

Cullen Hightower

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish