Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Camerounian

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

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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.

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

Cato The Elder

13.

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

Oprah Winfrey

14.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

15.

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

16.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

17.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

18.

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

Kraus, Karl

19.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

20.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

22.

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

23.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

24.

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

25.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

26.

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

Cocteau, Jean

27.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

Larson, Doug

30.

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

31.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Bouton, E. S.

35.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

36.

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

37.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

41.

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

Pindar

42.

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

43.

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

Ziggy

44.

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

Zenrin

45.

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

Proverb, Spanish

46.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

50.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo