Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

12.

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

Bible

13.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

14.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

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

Evangel

16.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

17.

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

18.

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

Socrates

19.

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

20.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

21.

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

22.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

23.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

24.

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

25.

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

Cocteau, Jean

26.

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

Aristophanes

27.

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

28.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

29.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

30.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

31.

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

32.

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

Garbutt, Frank

33.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

34.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Oprah Winfrey

39.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

40.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

41.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

44.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

45.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

46.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

47.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

48.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

50.

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

Butler, Samuel

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