Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

2.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

3.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

4.

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

Bible

5.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

6.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

7.

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

8.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

9.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

10.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.

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

15.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

16.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

17.

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

Quintilian

18.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

19.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

20.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

21.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

22.

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

Saroyan, William

23.

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

Talmud, The

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Evangel

26.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

27.

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

28.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

29.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

30.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

33.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

34.

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

Noll, Chuck

35.

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

Buddha

36.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

37.

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

Mencken, H. L.

38.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

39.

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

40.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Garbutt, Frank

44.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

45.

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

46.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

47.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

48.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

49.

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.