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

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Buddha

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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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 greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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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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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

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

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

Noll, Chuck

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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]

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