Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

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

3.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

4.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

5.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

6.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

7.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

8.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

9.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

11.

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

Marx, Eleanor

12.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

13.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Bible

15.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

16.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

17.

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

Bouton, E. S.

18.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Pindar

20.

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

Cullen Hightower

21.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

22.

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

23.

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

Blake, William

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

28.

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

Talmud, The

29.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

31.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

32.

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

Evangel

33.

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

34.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

35.

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

36.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

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

44.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.