Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Noll, Chuck

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Epictetus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Bible

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

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

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

Bible

10.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

12.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Bouton, E. S.

14.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

15.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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.

18.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

21.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

24.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

25.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

26.

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

Young, Andrew

27.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

28.

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

29.

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

Buddha

30.

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

Quintilian

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

34.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

38.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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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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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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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

47.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius