Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Talmud, The

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

Basho, Matsuo

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

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Young, Andrew

10.

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

James Boswell

11.

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

Quintilian

12.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Talmud, The

15.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

16.

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

17.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

18.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

Bible

23.

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

Bible

24.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

25.

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

Ziggy

26.

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

Cullen Hightower

27.

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

Kraus, Karl

28.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

31.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

32.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

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

34.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

35.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

36.

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

37.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

38.

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

41.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

43.

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

44.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.