Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

- Young, Andrew

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Bible

2.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

3.

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

4.

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

Cheever, John

5.

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

Levenson, Samuel

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

Butler, Samuel

8.

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

9.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

10.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

11.

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

12.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

Bible

14.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

15.

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

Ziggy

16.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

17.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

21.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

23.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

24.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

25.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

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

Aristophanes

27.

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

Confucius

28.

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

Buddha

29.

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

Quintilian

30.

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

31.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

33.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

34.

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

35.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

36.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

37.

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

38.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

39.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Cullen Hightower

41.

Action should culminate in wisdom.