Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Elizabeth, Queen

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Talmud, The

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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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

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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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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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

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

Larson, Doug

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

Buddha

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Bible

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