Motivational Quotes
Wisdom
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.
Best Quotes about Wisdom
A nation's treasure is its scholars.
Proverb, Yiddish
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes
The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]
Bible
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
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
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
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
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Larson, Doug
Action should culminate in wisdom.
Bhagavad Gita
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Gibran, Kahlil
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Blake, William
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
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
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Proverb, Turkish
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Gabirol, Ibn
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.
Cudworth, Ralph J.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
Proverb, Spanish
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Francis of Assisi, St.
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
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
Talmud, The
Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.
Fitzhenry, R. I.
Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.
Smollett, Tobias G.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
Thurber, James
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
Proverb, African
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Franklin, Benjamin
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
Talmud, The
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Hoover, Herbert Clark
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
Ward, William A.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
Proverb, Camerounian
Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.
Bible
Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Watson, Thomas J.
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
Young, Andrew
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.
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
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Tolstoy, Count Leo
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