Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Larson, Doug

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Larson, Doug

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

Bible

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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

Young, Andrew

10.

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

11.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

13.

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

14.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

16.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

20.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

21.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

22.

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

Confucius

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Marx, Eleanor

25.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

26.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

27.

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

Bouton, E. S.

28.

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

Basho, Matsuo

29.

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

Evangel

30.

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

31.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

32.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

33.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

34.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

35.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

36.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

37.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Noll, Chuck

45.

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

Cullen Hightower

46.

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

47.

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

Cato The Elder

48.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

49.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

50.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh