Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Noll, Chuck

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Cato The Elder

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Ziggy

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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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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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Pindar

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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

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

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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

Talmud, The