Best Quotes about Wisdom
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.
Bible
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
The wisest have the most authority.
Plato
The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.
Cocteau, Jean
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
Talmud, The
Action should culminate in wisdom.
Bhagavad Gita
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
Marx, Eleanor
Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
Ward, William A.
The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
Garbutt, Frank
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
Proverb, Spanish
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
Bacon, Francis
Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]
Bible
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles
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
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
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates
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
A nation's treasure is its scholars.
Proverb, Yiddish
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Twain, Mark
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Watson, Thomas J.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
Talmud, The
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Aurelius, Marcus
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Brecht, Bertolt
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
Smiles, Samuel
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
Young, Andrew
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
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Blake, William
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maeterlinck, Maurice
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Proverb, Turkish
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
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Clemenceau, Georges
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
Evangel
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Franklin, Benjamin
The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]
Bible
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Larson, Doug
There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
Luther, Martin
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
Plato
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Ziggy
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
Buddha
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
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