Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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

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

Zenrin

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

10.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

11.

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

Robbie Gass

12.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

13.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

14.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

15.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

16.

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

18.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

22.

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

23.

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

Cato The Elder

24.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

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

Kraus, Karl

26.

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

27.

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

Oprah Winfrey

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

32.

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

Cocteau, Jean

33.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

34.

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

36.

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

Epictetus

37.

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

38.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

39.

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

Basho, Matsuo

40.

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

Levenson, Samuel

41.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

42.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Cheever, John

44.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

48.

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

49.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

50.

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

Bible