Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

2.

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

Larson, Doug

3.

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

4.

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

James Boswell

5.

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

Garbutt, Frank

6.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

7.

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

8.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

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

10.

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

Saroyan, William

11.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

12.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

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

Evans, Bergen

14.

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

Socrates

15.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

16.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

17.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

18.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

19.

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

Zenrin

20.

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

Bible

21.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

22.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

23.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

24.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

26.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Confucius

28.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

31.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Thurber, James

34.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

35.

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

Marx, Eleanor

36.

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

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

39.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

44.

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

Quintilian

45.

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

Noll, Chuck

46.

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

Cato The Elder

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

50.

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

Elizabeth, Queen