Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

2.

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

Buddha

3.

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

4.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

5.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

6.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

7.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

8.

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

Proverb, Turkish

9.

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

10.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

11.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

15.

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

Mencken, H. L.

16.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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.

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

19.

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

Buddha

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

24.

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

Evans, Bergen

25.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

26.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

29.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Talmud, The

31.

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

Aristophanes

32.

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

33.

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

Confucius

34.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

39.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

40.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

41.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

42.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

43.

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

Cato The Elder

44.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Zenrin

46.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

47.

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

48.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

50.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish