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

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

Young, Andrew

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Cheever, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buddha

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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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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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Quintilian

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bible

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.