Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ziggy

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Noll, Chuck

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

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

Bible

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

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

10.

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

11.

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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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Mencken, H. L.

15.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

16.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

17.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

Cullen Hightower

19.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

20.

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

Basho, Matsuo

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

24.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

25.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

28.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

29.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

30.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

32.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

33.

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

Young, Andrew

34.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

35.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

36.

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.

Bible

37.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Bible

39.

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

Kraus, Karl

40.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

41.

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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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

44.

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

45.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

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

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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.