Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

2.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

3.

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

4.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

5.

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

Cato The Elder

6.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

Talmud, The

9.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

10.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

11.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

12.

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

Noll, Chuck

13.

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

14.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

15.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

16.

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

Cheever, John

17.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

18.

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

Quintilian

19.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

20.

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

Basho, Matsuo

21.

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

22.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

24.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

25.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

26.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

Buddha

28.

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.

29.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

30.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

32.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

33.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

36.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

37.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

38.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

39.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

41.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

43.

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

44.

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

Garbutt, Frank

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

47.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

48.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo