Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

2.

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

3.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

4.

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

Noll, Chuck

5.

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

Talmud, The

6.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

7.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

8.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

9.

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

10.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

11.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

12.

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

Proverb, Turkish

13.

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

Basho, Matsuo

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

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

17.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

18.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

19.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

20.

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

21.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

26.

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

Talmud, The

27.

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

Pindar

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.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

30.

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

Saroyan, William

31.

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

32.

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

Ziggy

33.

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

Garbutt, Frank

34.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

35.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

36.

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

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Proverb, Spanish

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

42.

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

43.

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

Kraus, Karl

44.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

45.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

46.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

47.

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

Levenson, Samuel

48.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

49.

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.

50.

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