Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

2.

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

Basho, Matsuo

3.

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

Cheever, John

4.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

5.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

6.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

7.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

8.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

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

10.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

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 days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

18.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

19.

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

Cato The Elder

20.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

21.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

22.

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

23.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

24.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

25.

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

James Boswell

26.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

27.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

28.

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

Marx, Eleanor

29.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

30.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

32.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

33.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

34.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

38.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

39.

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

Kraus, Karl

40.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

41.

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

Garbutt, Frank

42.

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

43.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

Young, Andrew

47.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Carlyle, Thomas