Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

2.

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

Talmud, The

3.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

4.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

5.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

6.

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

Twain, Mark

7.

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

Talmud, The

8.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

9.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

10.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

16.

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

17.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

Bible

21.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Confucius

24.

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

Buddha

25.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

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

Evans, Bergen

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

29.

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

30.

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

Noll, Chuck

31.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

32.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

33.

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.

34.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

36.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

40.

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

41.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

42.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

43.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

44.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

45.

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

Ward, William A.

46.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

47.

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

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.

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

Basho, Matsuo

50.

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