Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

3.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

4.

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

5.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

6.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

9.

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

Cullen Hightower

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

15.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

19.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

20.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

Butler, Samuel

23.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

24.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

25.

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

Garbutt, Frank

26.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

27.

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

Noll, Chuck

28.

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

Aristophanes

29.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

32.

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

Ziggy

33.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

34.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

35.

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

Bouton, E. S.

36.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

37.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

38.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

39.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

45.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

Cocteau, Jean

48.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

49.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

50.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita