Motivational Quotes
Wisdom
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Best Quotes about Wisdom
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
Azai, Rabbi Ben
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Proverb, Turkish
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Collins, John Churton
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
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Blake, William
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Larson, Doug
No man is wise enough by himself.
Titus Maccius Plautus
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
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Quarles, Francis
I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
Hesse, Hermann
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
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Brecht, Bertolt
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Nietzsche, Friedrich
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De
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
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Borland, Hal
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Mencken, H. L.
Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
Walt Whitman
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles
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
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Saroyan, William
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
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
Blake, William
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Franklin, Benjamin
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.
Who is wise? One who learns from all.
Talmud, The
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Aurelius, Marcus
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
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
Galbraith, John Kenneth
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
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maeterlinck, Maurice
A nation's treasure is its scholars.
Proverb, Yiddish
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
The price of wisdom is eternal thought.
Birch, Frank
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
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Bacon, Francis
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
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower
Wise men still seek Him today.
Bell, Dan
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Levenson, Samuel
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phaedrus
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
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
Evans, Bergen
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