Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Kraus, Karl

2.

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

Levenson, Samuel

3.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

4.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Cocteau, Jean

6.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

8.

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

Aristophanes

9.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

10.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

12.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

15.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

16.

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

Butler, Samuel

17.

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

Evangel

18.

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

19.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

20.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

21.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

23.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

24.

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

25.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

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

Proverb, Turkish

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

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31.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

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32.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

33.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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

36.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Spanish

39.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

41.

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

42.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

44.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

46.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

47.

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

Blake, William

48.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

49.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

50.

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]

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