Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

Kraus, Karl

4.

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

Epictetus

5.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

6.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

7.

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

Proverb, Spanish

8.

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

9.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

10.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

13.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

14.

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

15.

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

16.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

18.

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

Blake, William

19.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

20.

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

Levenson, Samuel

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Cato The Elder

25.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

26.

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

27.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

28.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

31.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

32.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

33.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

34.

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

35.

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

Pindar

36.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

40.

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

Bouton, E. S.

41.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

Cullen Hightower

46.

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

47.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

48.

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

Mencken, H. L.

49.

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

Socrates

50.

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