Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

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

Bible

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Kraus, Karl

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

10.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

11.

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

12.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

13.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

14.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

15.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

16.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

20.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

21.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

22.

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

Garbutt, Frank

23.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

24.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

29.

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

30.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

31.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

32.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

33.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

34.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

35.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

36.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

37.

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

38.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

39.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

40.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

41.

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

42.

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

Ward, William A.

43.

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.

44.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

47.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

48.

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

Young, Andrew

49.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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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.