Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

- Cudworth, Ralph J.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Zenrin

2.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

3.

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

Ward, William A.

4.

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

Talmud, The

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

8.

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

Blake, William

9.

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

Thurber, James

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

13.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

14.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

15.

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

16.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

17.

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

18.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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

Levenson, Samuel

22.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

24.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

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

26.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

27.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

28.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

29.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

30.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

37.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

38.

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

39.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

40.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

41.

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

42.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

43.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

44.

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

Talmud, The

45.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

46.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

47.

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

Robbie Gass

48.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

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

50.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus