Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Noll, Chuck

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Buddha

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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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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

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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 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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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 end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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

Bible

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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