Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Marx, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Kraus, Karl

2.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

3.

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

4.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

5.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

6.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

7.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

9.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

12.

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

Bible

13.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

14.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

16.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

17.

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

18.

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

Pindar

19.

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

Cato The Elder

20.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Confucius

23.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

24.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

25.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

26.

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

Robbie Gass

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Cullen Hightower

34.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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

Bible

36.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

40.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

41.

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

Garbutt, Frank

42.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

43.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

44.

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

Oprah Winfrey

45.

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

46.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

47.

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

Cheever, John

48.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

49.

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