Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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.

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

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

Larson, Doug

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

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

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

Talmud, The

10.

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

11.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

12.

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

Pindar

13.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

14.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

16.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

17.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

25.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

26.

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

27.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

28.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

29.

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

Thurber, James

30.

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

Buddha

31.

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

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

39.

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

40.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

41.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

42.

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

Ward, William A.

43.

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

Cullen Hightower

44.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

45.

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

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

48.

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

Socrates

49.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

50.

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