Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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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

2.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

3.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

4.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

5.

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

6.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

7.

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

Kraus, Karl

8.

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

Pindar

9.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

12.

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

Quintilian

13.

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

14.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

15.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

16.

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

17.

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

Marx, Eleanor

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

21.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

22.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

23.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

24.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

29.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Robbie Gass

31.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

32.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

33.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

37.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

38.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

39.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

40.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

42.

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

43.

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

Saroyan, William

44.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

45.

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

Cullen Hightower

46.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

49.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

50.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant