Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Boileau, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

4.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

5.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

6.

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

7.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

8.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

9.

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

10.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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

12.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

14.

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

15.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

16.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

17.

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

Levenson, Samuel

18.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

19.

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

20.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

26.

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

Larson, Doug

27.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

28.

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

Bible

29.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

30.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

31.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

35.

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

36.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

38.

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

Saroyan, William

39.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

40.

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

Robbie Gass

41.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

42.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

Bible

45.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

46.

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

Mencken, H. L.

47.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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

Blake, William