Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

2.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

3.

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

Larson, Doug

4.

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

5.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

6.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

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

Oprah Winfrey

8.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

9.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

10.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

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

12.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Cato The Elder

17.

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

James Boswell

18.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

19.

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

20.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

24.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

25.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

26.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

27.

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

Blake, William

28.

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

29.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

30.

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

Bible

31.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

32.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

33.

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

Confucius

34.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

35.

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

Cheever, John

36.

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

37.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Talmud, The

40.

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

Noll, Chuck

41.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

45.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

Ziggy

49.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

50.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish