Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

2.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

3.

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

9.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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

Evangel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

18.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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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

20.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

24.

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

28.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Saroyan, William

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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.

34.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

35.

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

Epictetus

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Confucius

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

43.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

44.

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

Thurber, James

45.

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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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.