Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

3.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

4.

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.

5.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

6.

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

7.

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

Robbie Gass

8.

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

Cocteau, Jean

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

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.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

16.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

17.

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

18.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

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

20.

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

Basho, Matsuo

21.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

22.

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

Marx, Eleanor

23.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

24.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

25.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

26.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

27.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

28.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

34.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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

Cato The Elder

36.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

37.

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

38.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

39.

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

40.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

41.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

Noll, Chuck

44.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

45.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

46.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

47.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

50.

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.