Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

3.

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

Noll, Chuck

4.

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

Basho, Matsuo

5.

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

6.

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

Proverb, Chinese

7.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

8.

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

Bouton, E. S.

9.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

10.

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

Evangel

11.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

12.

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

Young, Andrew

13.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

14.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

15.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

17.

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

18.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

19.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

20.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

21.

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

22.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

23.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

24.

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

25.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

26.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

27.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

28.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

29.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

32.

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

33.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

34.

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

Talmud, The

35.

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

Ziggy

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

40.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

41.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

42.

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

Ward, William A.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Zenrin

46.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

47.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

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.

50.

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

Garbutt, Frank