Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

3.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

4.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

6.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

7.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

8.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

9.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

Aristophanes

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

14.

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

Cocteau, Jean

15.

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

Garbutt, Frank

16.

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

Zenrin

17.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

22.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

23.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

24.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

27.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

28.

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

29.

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

Marx, Eleanor

30.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

31.

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

Ziggy

32.

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

Cato The Elder

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Cheever, John

36.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

37.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

40.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.