Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

2.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

3.

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

Garbutt, Frank

4.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

5.

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

Aristophanes

6.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

7.

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

Proverb, Spanish

8.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

9.

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

Proverb, Turkish

10.

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

11.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Robbie Gass

15.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

16.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

18.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

19.

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

20.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

24.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

25.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

26.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

27.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

28.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

29.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

30.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

33.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

35.

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

36.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

37.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

38.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

40.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

41.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Thurber, James

47.

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

Cheever, John

48.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

49.

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

50.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus