Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Ziggy

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Talmud, The

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saroyan, William

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

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

Aristophanes

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

10.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Bouton, E. S.

13.

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

14.

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

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.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Evans, Bergen

19.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

20.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

21.

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

Socrates

22.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Bible

24.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

25.

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

26.

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

Levenson, Samuel

27.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

30.

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

Larson, Doug

31.

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

Cato The Elder

32.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

33.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

34.

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

Buddha

35.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

Buddha

38.

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

39.

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

Bible

40.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

43.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

44.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

45.

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

Quintilian

46.

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

Evangel

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt