Inspirations

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

- James Truslow Adams

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

- Aristophanes

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

- Marcus Aurelius

In seeking wisdom thou art wise, in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

- Rabbi Ben Azai

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

- Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom, he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

- Francis Bacon

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

- Basho

Wise men still seek Him today.

- Dan Bell

Action should culminate in wisdom.

- Bhagavad Gita

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple.

- Psalms 19:7, Bible

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.

- Ecclesiastes, Bible

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

- Bible

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

- Bible

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

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

- Bible

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you stemma 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

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

- 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 to 15, Bible

Better to get wisdom than gold.

- Bible

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

- Josh Billings

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

- Frank Birch

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

- Nicholas Boileau

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- E S Bouton

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

- Bertolt Brecht

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

- Buddha

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Cato The Elder

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise.

- Miguel De Cervantes

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

- Georges Clemenceau

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.

- Charles Caleb Colton

By three methods we may learn wisdom, First, by reflection, which is noblest, Second, by imitation, which is easiest, and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

- Confucius

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.

- Cyril Connolly

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.

- Calvin Coolidge

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.

- Stephen R Covey

All human wisdom is summed up in two words, wait and hope.

- Alexandre Dumas

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

- Abba Eban

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

- Queen Elizabeth

Life is a festival only to the wise.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

- Epictetus

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

- Epictetus

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

- Euripides

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

- Evangel

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

- Bergen Evans

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

- R I Fitzhenry

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

- Benjamin Franklin

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.

- Sigmund Freud

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

- Ibn Gabirol

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

- Ibn Gabirol

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

- John Kenneth Galbraith

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Frank Garbutt

This is the highest wisdom that I own, freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wisdom is found only in truth.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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.

- Hermann Hesse

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wisdom often times consists of knowing what to do next.

- Herbert Clark Hoover

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

- Horace

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

- William James

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

- Samuel Johnson

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

- Sir Roger L'Estrange

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

- Doug Larson

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

- Robert E Lee

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

- Samuel Levenson

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

- Maurice Maeterlinck

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.

- Orison Swett Marden

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

- Orison Swett Marden

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

- Eleanor Marx

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Chuck Noll

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

- John Patrick

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

- Phaedrus

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

- Pindar

The wisest have the most authority.

- Plato

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

- Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools, because they have to say something.

- Plato

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

By others faults the wise correct their own.

- Proverb

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

- African Proverb

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

- Chinese Proverb

Deep doubts, deep wisdom, small doubts, little wisdom.

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Chinese Proverb

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

- Danish Proverb

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

- German Proverb

Everyone is wise until he speaks.

- Irish Proverb

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

- Spanish Proverb

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

- Turkish Proverb

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

- Yiddish Proverb

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

- Francis Quarles

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

- Theodore Roosevelt

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

- Helen Rowland

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

- George Santayana

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

- William Saroyan

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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.

- Samuel Smiles

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

- Samuel Smiles

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

- Samuel Smiles

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

- Socrates

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

- Socrates

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

- Sophocles

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

- Konstantin Stanislavisky

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

- Publilius Syrus

The end result of wisdom is, good deeds.

- The Talmud

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

- The Talmud

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

- The Talmud

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

- Sid Taylor

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

- Count Leo Tolstoy

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

- Source Unknown

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

- Source Unknown

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

- Source Unknown

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

- Source Unknown

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

- William A Ward

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

- Thomas J Watson

Wisdom begins at the end.

- Daniel Webster

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

- Woodrow T Wilson

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

- Andrew Young

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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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

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

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

In seeking wisdom thou art wise, in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom, he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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

Wise men still seek Him today.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.

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

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

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.

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you stemma 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.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

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.

Better to get wisdom than gold.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

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

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

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.

By three methods we may learn wisdom, First, by reflection, which is noblest, Second, by imitation, which is easiest, and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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

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.

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.

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.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words, wait and hope.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

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

Life is a festival only to the wise.

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.

A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

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

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

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

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

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

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

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

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

This is the highest wisdom that I own, freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

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

Wisdom is found only in truth.

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.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Wisdom often times consists of knowing what to do next.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

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

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

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

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

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

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