Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Butler, Samuel

2.

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

Cato The Elder

3.

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

Bible

4.

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

Evans, Bergen

5.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

6.

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

7.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

8.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

12.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

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

Cullen Hightower

14.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

15.

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

Bouton, E. S.

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

20.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

21.

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

Larson, Doug

22.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

23.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

24.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

25.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

26.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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.

28.

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

Basho, Matsuo

29.

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

Ward, William A.

30.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

31.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

34.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

38.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

39.

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

40.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

41.

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

42.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

43.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

44.

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

45.

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

Evangel

46.

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

47.

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

Oprah Winfrey

48.

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

Quintilian

49.

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

50.

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

Zenrin