Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

2.

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

3.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

4.

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

Blake, William

5.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

6.

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

Levenson, Samuel

7.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

8.

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

Proverb, Chinese

9.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Thurber, James

11.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

12.

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

Talmud, The

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

15.

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

16.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

17.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

19.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

20.

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

Butler, Samuel

21.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Cheever, John

25.

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

Larson, Doug

26.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

27.

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

Young, Andrew

28.

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

Cocteau, Jean

29.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

30.

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

31.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

32.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

33.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

34.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

35.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

36.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Ziggy

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

47.

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

Buddha

48.

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

49.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.