Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Evangel

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Bible

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

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

Noll, Chuck

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

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

Buddha

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ziggy

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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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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Cullen Hightower

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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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

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor