Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Cullen Hightower

2.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

3.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

5.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

8.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

9.

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

Evangel

10.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

11.

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

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.

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

14.

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

Basho, Matsuo

15.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

16.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

19.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

20.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

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

22.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

23.

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

24.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

27.

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

Buddha

28.

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

Ward, William A.

29.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

30.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

31.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

32.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

33.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Socrates

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

Ziggy

38.

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

Thurber, James

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

41.

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

42.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

43.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

44.

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

Cato The Elder

45.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

46.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

48.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

49.

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

50.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.