Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise men still seek Him today.

- Bell, Dan

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

2.

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

Ziggy

3.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

4.

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

5.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

6.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

7.

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

Cullen Hightower

8.

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

9.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

10.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

16.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

17.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

18.

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

19.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

20.

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

Bouton, E. S.

21.

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

Confucius

22.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

23.

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

Levenson, Samuel

24.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

25.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

26.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

27.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

28.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

32.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Thurber, James

35.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

36.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

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

Socrates

39.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

40.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

43.

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

Evangel

44.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

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

James Boswell

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

49.

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

Talmud, The

50.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan