Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

3.

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

Evangel

4.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

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

6.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

7.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

8.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

9.

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

Noll, Chuck

10.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

11.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

12.

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

Buddha

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Bible

15.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

17.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

18.

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

Levenson, Samuel

19.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

20.

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

Pindar

21.

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

22.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

23.

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

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

28.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

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

Cullen Hightower

30.

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.

31.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

33.

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

34.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

35.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

36.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

37.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

38.

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

Confucius

39.

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

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Oprah Winfrey

44.

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

45.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

47.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

48.

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

49.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

50.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.