Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

2.

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

3.

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

Buddha

4.

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

5.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

6.

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

Larson, Doug

7.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

8.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

9.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

11.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

12.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

15.

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

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

Blake, William

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

23.

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

24.

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

25.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

29.

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

30.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

31.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

32.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

35.

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

36.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

40.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

42.

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

Ziggy

43.

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

Pindar

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

50.

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

Garbutt, Frank