Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Adams, James Truslow

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

3.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

4.

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

Cullen Hightower

5.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

6.

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

Basho, Matsuo

7.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

8.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

9.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

10.

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

11.

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.

Taylor, Sid

12.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

15.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

16.

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

Bible

17.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

18.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

19.

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

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

22.

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

Noll, Chuck

23.

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

Oprah Winfrey

24.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

25.

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

Evans, Bergen

26.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

27.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

28.

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

Ward, William A.

29.

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.

30.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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.

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

37.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

38.

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

Saroyan, William

39.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

40.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

43.

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

Young, Andrew

44.

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

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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

Buddha

47.

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

48.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.