Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

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

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

Marx, Eleanor

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

Ziggy

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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 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.

10.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

Talmud, The

13.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

14.

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

Ward, William A.

15.

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

16.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

18.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

19.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

20.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

21.

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

22.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

23.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

24.

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

Bible

25.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

26.

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

Noll, Chuck

27.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

28.

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

29.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

30.

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

Kraus, Karl

31.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

32.

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

33.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

34.

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

35.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

38.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

42.

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

Cato The Elder

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

48.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

50.

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