Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Evangel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

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

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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.

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Epictetus

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

Talmud, The

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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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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Blake, William

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

Young, Andrew

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

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Noll, Chuck

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Cullen Hightower

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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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

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Pindar

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Kraus, Karl

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Evans, Bergen

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cato The Elder

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles