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.

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.

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

3.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

4.

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

5.

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

Talmud, The

6.

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

Mencken, H. L.

7.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

8.

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

9.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

10.

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

Garbutt, Frank

11.

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

Buddha

12.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

16.

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

James Boswell

17.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

18.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

22.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

23.

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

Cato The Elder

24.

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

25.

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

Robbie Gass

26.

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

27.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

29.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

30.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

34.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.