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

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Bible

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Cato The Elder

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

10.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

11.

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

12.

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

Buddha

13.

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

Pindar

14.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

16.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

17.

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

18.

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

Talmud, The

19.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

21.

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

Socrates

22.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

28.

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

29.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Ziggy

31.

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

Thurber, James

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

36.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

37.

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

Aristophanes

38.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

39.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

40.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

Quintilian

45.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

46.

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.

Connolly, Cyril

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Cheever, John