Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

4.

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

Blake, William

5.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

6.

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

Larson, Doug

7.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

8.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

9.

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

10.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

12.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

13.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

14.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

17.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

18.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

19.

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

20.

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

Saroyan, William

21.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

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

Buddha

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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

24.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Noll, Chuck

28.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

33.

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

34.

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

35.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

36.

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

37.

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

Bouton, E. S.

38.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

39.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

40.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

41.

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

Cullen Hightower

42.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

43.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

47.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

48.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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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

50.

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