Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

2.

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

3.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

4.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

5.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

6.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

8.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

9.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

Evangel

12.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

13.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

14.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

15.

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

Larson, Doug

16.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

17.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

18.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

19.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

20.

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

Bible

21.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

24.

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

25.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

26.

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

27.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

28.

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

James Boswell

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

35.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

36.

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

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Zenrin

39.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

40.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

41.

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

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

44.

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

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

Oprah Winfrey

48.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

49.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

50.

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