Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Basho, Matsuo

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

2.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

3.

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

Proverb, Chinese

4.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

5.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

6.

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.

7.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

8.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

9.

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

10.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

11.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

12.

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

Confucius

13.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

14.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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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

16.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Garbutt, Frank

20.

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

Larson, Doug

21.

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

22.

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

Butler, Samuel

23.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

26.

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

27.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

28.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

29.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

30.

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

Bible

31.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

32.

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

33.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

34.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

35.

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

36.

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

Cato The Elder

37.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

38.

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

39.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

40.

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

Evangel

41.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

42.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

Marx, Eleanor

44.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

45.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

46.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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

48.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

49.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles