Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Evangel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

2.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

3.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

4.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

5.

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

6.

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

Zenrin

7.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

8.

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

Noll, Chuck

9.

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

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

12.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

14.

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

Buddha

15.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

16.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Thurber, James

21.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

22.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Evangel

25.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

26.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

27.

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

28.

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

29.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

30.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

31.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

32.

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

Evans, Bergen

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

36.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Garbutt, Frank

38.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

39.

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

40.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

41.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

42.

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

43.

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

Buddha

44.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

45.

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

Bouton, E. S.

46.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

47.

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

48.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

49.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

50.

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