Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

2.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

3.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

7.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

9.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

10.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

15.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

16.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

17.

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

Quintilian

18.

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

Garbutt, Frank

19.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

22.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Young, Andrew

27.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

28.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

31.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

34.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

35.

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

36.

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

Talmud, The

37.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

38.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

39.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

40.

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

Bible

41.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

42.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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.

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

Talmud, The

45.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn