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.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

2.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

3.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

4.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

5.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

6.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

7.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

8.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

9.

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

Cheever, John

10.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

13.

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

14.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

15.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

16.

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

17.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

18.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

19.

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

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

23.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

24.

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

Proverb, Turkish

25.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Ward, William A.

28.

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

Marx, Eleanor

29.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

30.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

31.

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

32.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

33.

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

James Boswell

34.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

35.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

37.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

38.

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

Epictetus

39.

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

40.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

41.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

42.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

47.

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

Levenson, Samuel

48.

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