Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kraus, Karl

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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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 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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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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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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

Bible

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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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 doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Buddha

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Cato The Elder

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.