Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

6.

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

Cheever, John

7.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

8.

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

Bible

9.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

10.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

11.

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

Saroyan, William

12.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

13.

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

Cullen Hightower

14.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

15.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

16.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

17.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

Blake, William

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

32.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

33.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Bible

36.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

37.

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

38.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

39.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

40.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

41.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

42.

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

James Boswell

43.

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

Cato The Elder

44.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

45.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

46.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

47.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.