Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

No man is wise enough by himself.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

2.

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

3.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

4.

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

Talmud, The

5.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

6.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

8.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

9.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

10.

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.

11.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

13.

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

14.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

15.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

16.

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

Basho, Matsuo

17.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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.

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

20.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

21.

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

22.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

23.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

24.

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

Cato The Elder

25.

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

Thurber, James

26.

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

Bible

27.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

30.

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

Blake, William

31.

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

Cheever, John

32.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

33.

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

34.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

35.

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

36.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Noll, Chuck

38.

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

39.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

40.

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

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

43.

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

44.

The wisest have the most authority.