Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buddha

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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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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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

Bible

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Garbutt, Frank

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Quintilian

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

Cheever, John

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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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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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.