Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

2.

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

3.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

4.

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

Evangel

5.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

6.

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

7.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

8.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

9.

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

11.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

12.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Socrates

15.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Bible

17.

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.

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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

20.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

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

Cullen Hightower

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

24.

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

Blake, William

25.

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

26.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

27.

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

Bible

28.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

29.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

30.

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

31.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

32.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

33.

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

34.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

35.

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

Talmud, The

36.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

37.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

39.

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

Cato The Elder

40.

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

Oprah Winfrey

41.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

44.

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

Zenrin

45.

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

Saroyan, William

46.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

47.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

48.

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

49.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

50.

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

Buscaglia, Leo