Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

- Birch, Frank

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

2.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

3.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

4.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

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6.

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

Talmud, The

7.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

8.

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

9.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

10.

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

Robbie Gass

11.

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

Garbutt, Frank

12.

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

Socrates

13.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

14.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

15.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

16.

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

17.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

18.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

19.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

20.

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

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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.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

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

Kraus, Karl

27.

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

28.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

29.

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

Confucius

30.

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

Basho, Matsuo

31.

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

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

34.

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

Levenson, Samuel

35.

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

36.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

39.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

42.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

43.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

47.

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

48.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

49.

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

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