Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

3.

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

4.

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

Zenrin

5.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

6.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

7.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

8.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

9.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

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

Young, Andrew

16.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

17.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

20.

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

21.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

22.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

23.

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

Noll, Chuck

24.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

28.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

29.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

30.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

31.

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

32.

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

Socrates

33.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

34.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

35.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

36.

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

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

42.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

47.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

48.

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.