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.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

2.

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

Oprah Winfrey

3.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

4.

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

Cocteau, Jean

5.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

6.

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

Thurber, James

7.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

8.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

10.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

15.

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

Cheever, John

16.

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

Evans, Bergen

17.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

18.

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

19.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

21.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

22.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

23.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

24.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

25.

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

26.

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

Evangel

27.

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

Ziggy

28.

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

James Boswell

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

32.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

34.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

36.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

37.

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

38.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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