Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

- Collins, John Churton

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

4.

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

5.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

6.

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

Larson, Doug

7.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

8.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

9.

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

10.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

11.

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

Marx, Eleanor

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.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

14.

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

Evangel

15.

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

16.

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

Zenrin

17.

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

18.

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

Confucius

19.

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

Cheever, John

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Butler, Samuel

22.

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

Oprah Winfrey

23.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

25.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

26.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

27.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

28.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

33.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

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

Quintilian

35.

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

Cocteau, Jean

36.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

37.

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

38.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

39.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

40.

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

Noll, Chuck

41.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

42.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

43.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

44.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

45.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

49.

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

Bible

50.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato