Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

2.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

3.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

4.

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

5.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

7.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

8.

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

9.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

11.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

14.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

15.

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.

16.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Noll, Chuck

19.

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

20.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

21.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

22.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

23.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

27.

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

Ziggy

28.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

30.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

31.

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

Bouton, E. S.

32.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

35.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

36.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Buddha

38.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

39.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

41.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

42.

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

Bible

43.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

46.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Basho, Matsuo

49.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

50.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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