Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

Talmud, The

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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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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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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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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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

Noll, Chuck

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Thurber, James

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Cullen Hightower

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.