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

1.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

2.

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

3.

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

Twain, Mark

4.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

5.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

6.

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

7.

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

Cullen Hightower

8.

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

Garbutt, Frank

9.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

12.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

13.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

14.

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

Proverb, Turkish

15.

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

16.

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

Evangel

17.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

18.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

19.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Quintilian

22.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

23.

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

Kraus, Karl

24.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Buddha

27.

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

28.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

29.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

30.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

31.

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

Aristophanes

32.

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

33.

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

Robbie Gass

34.

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

Bible

35.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

36.

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

37.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

39.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

40.

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

Noll, Chuck

41.

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.

42.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

43.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

44.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

45.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

46.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

47.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

49.

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

50.

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.