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.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

4.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

5.

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

6.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

7.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

8.

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

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.

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

11.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

12.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

13.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

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

15.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

16.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

17.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

18.

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

Zenrin

19.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

20.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

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

Cheever, John

22.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

23.

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

24.

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

Pindar

25.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

26.

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.

27.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

28.

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

Noll, Chuck

29.

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

Ward, William A.

30.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

31.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Ziggy

34.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

35.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

36.

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

Bible

37.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

38.

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

Evangel

39.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Oprah Winfrey

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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

Quintilian

48.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

49.

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

50.

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