Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Evangel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Thurber, James

2.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

3.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

4.

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

Proverb, Turkish

5.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

6.

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

James Boswell

7.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

8.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

9.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

10.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

12.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

14.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

19.

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

Evans, Bergen

20.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

22.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

24.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

25.

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

Cheever, John

26.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

27.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

28.

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

29.

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

Evangel

30.

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

31.

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

Zenrin

32.

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

Buddha

33.

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

Cato The Elder

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

36.

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

37.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

38.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

39.

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

40.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

41.

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

Oprah Winfrey

42.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

43.

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

Cullen Hightower

44.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

46.

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

Levenson, Samuel

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

50.

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