Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Camerounian

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

3.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

4.

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

Confucius

5.

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

10.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

11.

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

12.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

13.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

14.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

15.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

16.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

17.

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

Buddha

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Bible

20.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

21.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

22.

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.

23.

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

Talmud, The

24.

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

Talmud, The

25.

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

Proverb, Turkish

26.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

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

30.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

32.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

33.

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

35.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

36.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

37.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

39.

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

Buddha

40.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

41.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

44.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

45.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

46.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

47.

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

Epictetus

48.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

49.

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.

50.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William