Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Elizabeth, Queen

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Pindar

2.

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

Saroyan, William

3.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

4.

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

Marx, Eleanor

5.

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

Cheever, John

6.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

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

8.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

10.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

11.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

14.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

15.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

16.

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

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

19.

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

Bible

20.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

21.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

26.

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

27.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

31.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

32.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

33.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

34.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

35.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

36.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

37.

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

38.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

39.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

44.

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

Zenrin

45.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

46.

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