Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

2.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

3.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

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

Epictetus

5.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

7.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

8.

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

Robbie Gass

9.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Kraus, Karl

12.

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

Socrates

13.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

14.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

15.

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

16.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

17.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Talmud, The

23.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

24.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

25.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

26.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

27.

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

28.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Cocteau, Jean

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Pindar

35.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

36.

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

Talmud, The

37.

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