Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

2.

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

Oprah Winfrey

3.

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

4.

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

Saroyan, William

5.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

6.

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

7.

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

Proverb, Spanish

8.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

9.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Kraus, Karl

11.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

14.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

15.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Aristophanes

17.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

18.

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

Buddha

19.

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

21.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

22.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

27.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

28.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

31.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

32.

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

Noll, Chuck

33.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

34.

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.

35.

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

Quintilian

36.

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

Evans, Bergen

37.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

38.

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

39.

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

Young, Andrew

40.

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

Bible

41.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

42.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

43.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

44.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

45.

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

Bible

46.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

47.

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.

48.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

49.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

50.

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

Basho, Matsuo