Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

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

Garbutt, Frank

4.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

5.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

6.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

7.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

8.

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

Blake, William

9.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

14.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

17.

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

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

20.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

21.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Zenrin

24.

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

25.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

26.

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

Buddha

27.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

29.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Cheever, John

33.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

35.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

36.

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

37.

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

Bouton, E. S.

38.

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

Proverb, Turkish

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

43.

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

Kraus, Karl

44.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

45.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

49.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

50.

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

Levenson, Samuel