Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Fitzhenry, R. I.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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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 foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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 wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Socrates

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

Evangel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Cato The Elder

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

Talmud, The

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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 fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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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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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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

Bible

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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