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

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

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

Cato The Elder

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Bible

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

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

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

Pindar

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

Noll, Chuck

10.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

11.

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

Robbie Gass

12.

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

13.

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

Zenrin

14.

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

Proverb, Spanish

15.

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

Cheever, John

16.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

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

20.

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

Buddha

21.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

22.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

23.

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

24.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

25.

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

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

Saroyan, William

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Marx, Eleanor

30.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

31.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

32.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

33.

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

Aristophanes

34.

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

Bible

35.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

36.

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

Epictetus

37.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

38.

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

39.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

40.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

41.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

42.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

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

44.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

45.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

47.

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

Garbutt, Frank

48.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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