Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

2.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

3.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

5.

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

6.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

7.

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

Ziggy

8.

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

9.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Pindar

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

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

20.

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

Confucius

21.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

22.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

23.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

24.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

25.

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

Buddha

26.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

27.

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

28.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

29.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

30.

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

Socrates

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Proverb, Turkish

34.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

35.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

37.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

38.

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

39.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Cullen Hightower

43.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

44.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

45.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

49.

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

50.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges