Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Twain, Mark

2.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

3.

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

4.

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

5.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

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

Levenson, Samuel

7.

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

8.

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

Cullen Hightower

9.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Proverb, Turkish

12.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

13.

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

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

16.

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

17.

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

Garbutt, Frank

18.

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

19.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

20.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

21.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

23.

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

24.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

25.

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

26.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

27.

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

28.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

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

Butler, Samuel

31.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

32.

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

33.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

34.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

35.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

36.

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

Bouton, E. S.

37.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

38.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

39.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

40.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

45.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

46.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.