Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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

Noll, Chuck

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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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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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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

Ziggy

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

Cato The Elder

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

Evangel

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Quintilian

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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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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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.