Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb, Chinese

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

6.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

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

8.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

9.

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

Bouton, E. S.

10.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

11.

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

James Boswell

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.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

14.

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

15.

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

Talmud, The

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

19.

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

Aristophanes

20.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

21.

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

22.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

23.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

24.

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

Evangel

25.

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

26.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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.

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

Pindar

29.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

30.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

31.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

32.

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

Cocteau, Jean

33.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

34.

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

35.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

36.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

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

39.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

40.

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

41.

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

Garbutt, Frank

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Buddha

46.

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

Ward, William A.

47.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.