Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Thurber, James

2.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

3.

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

Levenson, Samuel

4.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

5.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

6.

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

7.

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

8.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

9.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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.

13.

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

Buddha

14.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

15.

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

Marx, Eleanor

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

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

20.

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

Buddha

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

25.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Ziggy

27.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

28.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

29.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

33.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

34.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

35.

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

Bible

36.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

37.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

38.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

39.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

40.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

42.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

43.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

48.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

49.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

50.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von