Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

- Boileau, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

3.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

4.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

5.

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

Confucius

6.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

7.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

8.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

9.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

11.

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

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

14.

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

15.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

18.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

19.

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

20.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

21.

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

22.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

23.

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

Noll, Chuck

24.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

25.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

26.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

30.

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

Talmud, The

31.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

34.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

35.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

36.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

44.

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

Talmud, The

45.

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

Socrates

46.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

47.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

48.

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

49.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

50.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von