Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

2.

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

3.

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

Confucius

4.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

5.

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

6.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

7.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

9.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

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

Bouton, E. S.

11.

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

Cato The Elder

12.

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

Noll, Chuck

13.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

14.

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

Marx, Eleanor

15.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

18.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

19.

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

Talmud, The

20.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

21.

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

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

24.

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.

25.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

26.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

27.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

28.

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

Proverb, Turkish

29.

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

30.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

31.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

32.

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

Cocteau, Jean

33.

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

Talmud, The

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

Cullen Hightower

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

38.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

44.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Zenrin

46.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

47.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

49.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

50.

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