Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Wisdom

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

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

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

Aristophanes

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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

Saroyan, William

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

10.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

11.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

18.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

19.

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

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

Talmud, The

21.

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

Butler, Samuel

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

24.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

25.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

26.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

27.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

28.

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

Cocteau, Jean

29.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

31.

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

Blake, William

32.

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

Evangel

33.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

35.

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

Levenson, Samuel

36.

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

Evans, Bergen

37.

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

38.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

39.

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

40.

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

Cheever, John

41.

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

42.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

44.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

45.

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

Oprah Winfrey

46.

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.