Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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

Epictetus

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Levenson, Samuel

10.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

13.

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

Young, Andrew

14.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

15.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

16.

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

18.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

19.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

20.

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

21.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Cato The Elder

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

26.

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

Aristophanes

27.

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

28.

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

Quintilian

29.

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

Noll, Chuck

30.

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

31.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

32.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

33.

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

Cheever, John

34.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

35.

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

36.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

37.

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

Buddha

38.

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

Evans, Bergen

39.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

40.

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

41.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

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

43.

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

44.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

45.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

48.

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German