Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Larson, Doug

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Evangel

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Evans, Bergen

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Pindar

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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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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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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Ziggy

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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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