Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Bible

2.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

3.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

4.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

5.

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

Marx, Eleanor

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.

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

Cheever, John

8.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

9.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

11.

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

12.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

15.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

17.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

18.

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.

Rowland, Helen

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

21.

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

22.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

23.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

24.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

25.

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

26.

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

27.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Thurber, James

29.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

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

Pindar

36.

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

37.

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

38.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

39.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

40.

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

Young, Andrew

41.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

42.

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

Socrates

43.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

44.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

45.

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

Cullen Hightower

46.

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

Evangel

47.

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

48.

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

Buddha

49.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

50.

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

James Boswell

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