Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wisest have the most authority.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

Robbie Gass

4.

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

Cocteau, Jean

5.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

6.

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

Pindar

7.

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

Butler, Samuel

8.

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

9.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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.

15.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

16.

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

Buddha

17.

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

18.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

19.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

23.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

Evans, Bergen

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

30.

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

Talmud, The

31.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

32.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Proverb, Turkish

35.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

James Boswell

38.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

39.

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

Bouton, E. S.

40.

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

41.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

46.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

47.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

48.

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