Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

3.

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

Confucius

4.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

5.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

6.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

8.

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

9.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

10.

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.

11.

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

Bible

12.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

13.

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

14.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

15.

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.

16.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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.

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

Robbie Gass

23.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

24.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

27.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

30.

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

Cato The Elder

31.

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

Levenson, Samuel

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

34.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

35.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

36.

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

37.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

38.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

39.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

42.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

44.

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

45.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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