Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

2.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

3.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

4.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

5.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

6.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

7.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

8.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

9.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

13.

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

Buddha

14.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

15.

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

Basho, Matsuo

16.

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

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

Levenson, Samuel

22.

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

Cato The Elder

23.

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

24.

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

25.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

26.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

27.

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

28.

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

Pindar

29.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

30.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

31.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

33.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

34.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

35.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

36.

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

37.

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

Bouton, E. S.

38.

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

39.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

40.

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

41.

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

Aristophanes

42.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

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

48.

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

Cocteau, Jean

49.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

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