Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Evans, Bergen

2.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

3.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

4.

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

5.

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

6.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

7.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

8.

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

Socrates

9.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

10.

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

11.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

12.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

13.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

14.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

15.

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

16.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

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

Young, Andrew

19.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

21.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

22.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

25.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

26.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

27.

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

Talmud, The

28.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

29.

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

Thurber, James

30.

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

Talmud, The

31.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

32.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

34.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

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

38.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

40.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

41.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

42.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

43.

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

Levenson, Samuel

44.

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

Zenrin

45.

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

Bouton, E. S.

46.

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

47.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

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

Bible

50.

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