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

1.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

2.

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

3.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

4.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

5.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

6.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

7.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Evangel

11.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

12.

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

13.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

14.

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

15.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

17.

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

Bouton, E. S.

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Levenson, Samuel

20.

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

Cato The Elder

21.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

24.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

25.

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

Young, Andrew

26.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

27.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

28.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Blake, William

33.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

34.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

37.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

38.

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

39.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

40.

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

41.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

42.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

Zenrin

45.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

46.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

47.

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

48.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

49.

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

50.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

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