Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Confucius

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

21.

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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Epictetus

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Blake, William

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Saroyan, William

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bible

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.