Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Quintilian

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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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 not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Talmud, The

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

34.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Buddha

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin