Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Evangel

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

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

10.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

11.

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

12.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

14.

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

Pindar

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

17.

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

18.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

19.

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

20.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

21.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

25.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

32.

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

Aristophanes

33.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

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

35.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

38.

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

Basho, Matsuo

39.

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

Larson, Doug

41.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

44.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

47.

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

Butler, Samuel

48.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

49.

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

50.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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