Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Zenrin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Garbutt, Frank

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Ward, William A.

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

Evangel

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

11.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

12.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

16.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

17.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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

Talmud, The

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

22.

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.

23.

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

Socrates

24.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

26.

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

Bible

27.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

28.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

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

Robbie Gass

30.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

31.

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

Young, Andrew

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

37.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

38.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

48.

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

Evans, Bergen

49.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin