Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

10.

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

Zenrin

11.

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

Marx, Eleanor

12.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

13.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

14.

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

Epictetus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Noll, Chuck

17.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

18.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

19.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

20.

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

21.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

22.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

25.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

26.

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

Evangel

27.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

28.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

29.

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

32.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Aristophanes

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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

Cullen Hightower

45.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

46.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

48.

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

49.

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

Cato The Elder