Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

3.

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

Socrates

4.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

5.

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.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

8.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

9.

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

10.

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

Talmud, The

11.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

12.

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

13.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

14.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

21.

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.

Smiles, Samuel

22.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

Confucius

26.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

27.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

28.

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

29.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

33.

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

34.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

35.

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

Kraus, Karl

36.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Cullen Hightower

41.

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

Evans, Bergen

42.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

43.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

44.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

45.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

46.

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

47.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

48.

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

Garbutt, Frank

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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