Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

By others faults the wise correct their own.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Talmud, The

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

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

10.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

11.

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

Oprah Winfrey

12.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

13.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

15.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

17.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

18.

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

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

21.

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

Zenrin

22.

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

Buddha

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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

24.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

25.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

26.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

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

Bouton, E. S.

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

32.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

33.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

34.

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

Marx, Eleanor

35.

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

36.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

44.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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