Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

2.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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.

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.

5.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

6.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

7.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Twain, Mark

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

10.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

18.

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

Young, Andrew

19.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

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

21.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Cato The Elder

23.

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

24.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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.

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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

30.

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

31.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

33.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

34.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

36.

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

Zenrin

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

38.

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

Noll, Chuck

39.

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