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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

Robbie Gass

3.

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

4.

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

Confucius

5.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

6.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

7.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

8.

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

9.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

10.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

11.

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.

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

14.

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

15.

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

Zenrin

16.

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

17.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

20.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

21.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

22.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

23.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

24.

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

25.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

Bouton, E. S.

27.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

29.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

30.

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

31.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

32.

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

Larson, Doug

33.

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

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

Aristophanes

36.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

39.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

41.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

42.

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

43.

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

Cato The Elder

44.

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

Cullen Hightower

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

47.

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

Pindar

48.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

49.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.