Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Oprah Winfrey

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Noll, Chuck

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

15.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

20.

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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Pindar

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

27.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

James Boswell

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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

Cullen Hightower

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Evans, Bergen

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Quintilian

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

44.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Watson, Thomas J.