Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Quintilian

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Cullen Hightower

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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

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

Cato The Elder

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.

10.

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

11.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

Talmud, The

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

18.

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.

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

21.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

23.

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

24.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

25.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

26.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Blake, William

31.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

35.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

36.

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

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

39.

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

40.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

41.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

42.

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

43.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

44.

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

45.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

46.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

47.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

48.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

49.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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