Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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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

2.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

3.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

6.

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

Evans, Bergen

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

Basho, Matsuo

9.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

10.

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

Cato The Elder

11.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

12.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

13.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

16.

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

Proverb, Turkish

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Buddha

20.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

21.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

22.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

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

29.

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

Zenrin

30.

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

Garbutt, Frank

31.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

33.

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

Larson, Doug

34.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

35.

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

36.

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

37.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

38.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

39.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

40.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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

Evangel

43.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

44.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

45.

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

Ziggy

46.

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

47.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

48.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

49.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

50.

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