Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

2.

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

3.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

4.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

5.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

6.

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

7.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

8.

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

9.

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

Levenson, Samuel

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Turkish

14.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

17.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Cato The Elder

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

21.

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

22.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

23.

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

Zenrin

24.

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

Ward, William A.

25.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

29.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

32.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

33.

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

Quintilian

34.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

37.

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

Cocteau, Jean

38.

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

39.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

40.

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

Kraus, Karl

41.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

42.

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

Talmud, The

43.

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

44.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

45.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich