Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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

Young, Andrew

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Talmud, The

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

14.

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

Buddha

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

18.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

25.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

29.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

30.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

31.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

32.

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.

33.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

34.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

35.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Levenson, Samuel

38.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

40.

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

Marx, Eleanor

41.

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

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

44.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

48.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

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

Confucius

50.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.