Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Aristophanes

2.

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

Talmud, The

3.

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

4.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

10.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

11.

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

12.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

13.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

14.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

15.

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

16.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

17.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

18.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

20.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

21.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

23.

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

Ziggy

24.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

25.

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

Ward, William A.

26.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

27.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

31.

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

32.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

33.

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

34.

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

Cullen Hightower

35.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

39.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

42.

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

Bouton, E. S.

43.

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