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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

3.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

4.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

5.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

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

7.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

9.

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

10.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

11.

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

12.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

13.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

14.

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

Oprah Winfrey

15.

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

Garbutt, Frank

16.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

17.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

18.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

19.

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

Proverb, Turkish

20.

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

Basho, Matsuo

21.

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

Blake, William

22.

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

23.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

24.

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

Cullen Hightower

25.

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

Pindar

26.

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.

27.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

28.

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

29.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

33.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

34.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

38.

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

Young, Andrew

39.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

40.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

41.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

42.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

43.

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

Confucius

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

48.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

49.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.