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.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

2.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

3.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

4.

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

5.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

6.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

7.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

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

9.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

10.

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

11.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

12.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

13.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

14.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

15.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

18.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

19.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

22.

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

Basho, Matsuo

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Thurber, James

26.

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

Garbutt, Frank

27.

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

28.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

29.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

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

Bible

31.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

33.

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

34.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

35.

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

36.

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

Socrates

37.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

38.

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

39.

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

Cato The Elder

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

43.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

44.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

45.

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

Evangel

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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

Epictetus

48.

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

49.

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

Ward, William A.

50.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.