Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Buddha

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Bible

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

19.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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

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

Cullen Hightower

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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

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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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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.