Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Bouton, E. S.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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

Young, Andrew

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

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Elizabeth, Queen

10.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

11.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

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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

15.

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

16.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

17.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

20.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

21.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

22.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

23.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

30.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

31.

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

32.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

38.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

39.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

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

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

42.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

43.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De