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

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

Evangel

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

Epictetus

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Cullen Hightower

10.

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

11.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

12.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

13.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

14.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

15.

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

Levenson, Samuel

16.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

20.

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

21.

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

Ward, William A.

22.

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

Oprah Winfrey

23.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Aristophanes

28.

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

29.

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

Butler, Samuel

30.

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

31.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

32.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

36.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

43.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

47.

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

Cato The Elder

48.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

49.

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

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

Marilyn vos Savant