Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cato The Elder

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

Confucius

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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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 price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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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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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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

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

Epictetus

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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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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Talmud, The

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Evangel

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

Evans, Bergen

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

Noll, Chuck

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

42.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin