Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Socrates

2.

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

3.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

4.

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

Evangel

5.

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

Kraus, Karl

6.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

7.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

8.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

9.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

10.

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

Confucius

11.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

12.

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

Bible

13.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

14.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

15.

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

Aristophanes

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

18.

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

19.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

20.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

21.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

26.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

27.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

28.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

29.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

30.

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

Buddha

31.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

32.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

33.

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

Proverb, Turkish

34.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

35.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Cocteau, Jean

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

41.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

44.

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

45.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

49.

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

Epictetus

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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