Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

2.

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

Oprah Winfrey

3.

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

Noll, Chuck

4.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

7.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

8.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

9.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

10.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

11.

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.

12.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

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

14.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

15.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

19.

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.

20.

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

Evangel

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

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

Pindar

26.

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

Cato The Elder

27.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

28.

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

29.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

30.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

34.

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

Garbutt, Frank

35.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

36.

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

37.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

38.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

39.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

40.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

41.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

42.

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

Cocteau, Jean

43.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

44.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

45.

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

Bible

46.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

47.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

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

Young, Andrew