Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

- Bouton, E. S.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Evangel

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

5.

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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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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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

8.

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

Young, Andrew

9.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

11.

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

Evans, Bergen

12.

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

Talmud, The

13.

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

Bible

14.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

15.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

16.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

18.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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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

20.

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

21.

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

Kraus, Karl

22.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

23.

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

Talmud, The

24.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

25.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

26.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

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

Larson, Doug

29.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

30.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

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

Pindar

32.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

34.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

35.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

36.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

37.

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

Cullen Hightower

38.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

40.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

41.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

42.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

43.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

44.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

45.

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

Thurber, James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

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

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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

49.

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

50.

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

Noll, Chuck