Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Quintilian

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Quintilian

2.

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

Epictetus

3.

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

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

Butler, Samuel

6.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

7.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

9.

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

Bible

10.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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.

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

Aristophanes

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Cheever, John

18.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

19.

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

Ziggy

20.

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

Larson, Doug

21.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

22.

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

23.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

24.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

28.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

30.

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

Buddha

31.

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

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

34.

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

35.

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

Ward, William A.

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

38.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

39.

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

Thurber, James

40.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

41.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

42.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

43.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

44.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

45.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

46.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

47.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

48.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

49.

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