Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ziggy

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Larson, Doug

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

13.

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

14.

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

Evangel

15.

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

17.

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

Saroyan, William

18.

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

Pindar

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

Bouton, E. S.

24.

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

25.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

27.

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

Buddha

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Cato The Elder

31.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

32.

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

33.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

35.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

36.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

37.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

38.

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

Cullen Hightower

39.

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

Socrates

40.

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

Confucius

41.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

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

43.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

44.

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

45.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

46.

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

Buddha