Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

- Smollett, Tobias G.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

2.

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

Socrates

3.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

4.

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

5.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

6.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

7.

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

Bible

8.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

13.

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

14.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

Pindar

17.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

18.

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

Buddha

19.

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

20.

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

Cocteau, Jean

21.

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

Cullen Hightower

22.

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

23.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

24.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

28.

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

Ward, William A.

29.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

30.

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

31.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

33.

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

34.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

35.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

36.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

37.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

38.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

39.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

40.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

41.

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

42.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

43.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

45.

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

46.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

47.

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

48.

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

Noll, Chuck

49.

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

Proverb, Turkish

50.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas