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

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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

2.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

4.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Levenson, Samuel

9.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

12.

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

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

16.

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

Noll, Chuck

17.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

18.

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

Marx, Eleanor

19.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

20.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

22.

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

23.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

25.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

26.

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

27.

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

29.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

30.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

31.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

32.

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

Cocteau, Jean

33.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

37.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

38.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

39.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

40.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

41.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

42.

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

Proverb, Spanish

43.

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

Bible

44.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

45.

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.

46.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

47.

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

Bouton, E. S.

48.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

49.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.