Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

12.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

13.

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

Talmud, The

14.

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

Noll, Chuck

15.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

19.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

Kraus, Karl

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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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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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.

39.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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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 not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich