Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

3.

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

Quintilian

4.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

5.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.

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

7.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

8.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

9.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

10.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

18.

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

Proverb, Turkish

19.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

20.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

26.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

27.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

28.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

29.

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

Evangel

30.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

31.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

34.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

35.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

36.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

37.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

38.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

39.

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

40.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

41.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

42.

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

Ziggy

43.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

45.

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

46.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

47.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

48.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

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